World map prepared by ortelius9/25/2023 ![]() It is recorded that they travelled together through France in 1560. The two of them had a close relationship and shared their knowledge openly with each other. The general shape of the continent is derived from Gerard Mercator’s great twenty-one sheet world map of 1569. Ortelius depicts the discoveries of several people on this map. “One of the most famous and easily recognized maps of America, and one that is both functional as well as decorative”.(Burden) This map is probably the single most widely viewed and copied maps of America published in the 16th Century. Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.The drawing of the far eastern coast of Brazil, shown as well below the Equator. ![]() It is embellished with a ferocious sea battle southeast of Madagascar and several sea monsters in the Atlantic. Thus, one lake gives rise to four of the largest rivers in Africa. It branches into the Spiritu Sant, or the Limpopo. The Zaire (Congo) flows from the northeast of Lake Cafates, while the Zuama (Zambezi) exits at the south of the lake. Rivers from the north of both lakes wend northward and join to form the Nile. To the east and just slightly north is another, smaller lake. He rejected the name of Zaire-Zembere used by Gastaldi. Ortelius here also includes a large central lake, called Cafates. ![]() Farther north, the Niger River rises from Lake Niger. All the rivers are amalgamated here, reflecting the common Medieval belief that most continents had a central lake which gave rise to the largest rivers of the landmass. The former, which is also a name for the Zambezi River, branches into the Spiritu Sant, which is supposedly the Limpopo River. The larger of these rivers is also the source for the Zuama and Zaire Rivers. The main branch of the Nile is sourced from two lakes at roughly the same latitude. The map is significant for several reasons, including its place in the history of cartography of the African continent, its depiction of Central Africa and its rivers, and its inclusion in the first modern atlas. : “The map of Africa was, apparently, one of the few for which Ortelius) was responsible, as he gives no source, but it has been pointed out that there is some similarity between this map and the copperplate engraved maps of Forlani and Gastald (the latter’s 8-sheet map of 1564).” (Norwich) Quite a few new place names appearing along the North American west coast were provided to Ortelius by Hakluyt on the basis of recent explorations. Twol sea monsters and a sailing ship appear in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The projection of America is based upon Mercator’s Wall map of 1569, as is most of the other cartographic detail. In comparison to his previous versions of the World, South America has lost its curious bulge. A curious projection of Japan and Southeast Asia is shown. It also mentions place names reported by Marco Polo. The map includes a Northwest Passage and Northeast Passage and a massive Southern Continent which is attached to New Guinea. The title is given in large letters above the image and below, is a quotation from Cicero in Latin: “What do human affairs signify when one considers the vastness of the world and all eternity?” This map was made by Francois De Belleforest and it is based upon the cartography of Gastaldi and Gerard Mercator’s highly important 1569 wall map. First issued in 1570 and expanded over the next forty two years to this final Vrients edition of Ortelius’ masterwork, the Theatrum revolutionized the presentation of maps to an increasingly educated classes of Renaissance Europe and became the standard from which most cartographic works of the period were copied.Įach of the five maps offered here were the standards for their time, drawn from the most important wall maps produced by Mercator, Ortelius and other leading European mapmakers and represented the completion of the shift of importance from the Italian mapmakers of the mid-16th Century (the so-called Lafreri School of mapmakers), to the Low Countries, marking the beginning of the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography. Ortelius’ Theatrum was perhaps the single most influential set of maps published in the 16th Century. Ortelius: his World – Continents maps A Unique set from the same French atlas 1598Įarly matching set of maps of the World and Continents, from Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern World Atlas, 1598.
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