![]() ![]() Google celebrates its creator, Flemish cartographer. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. If you visit the Google homepage today, you will notice flipping pages of an atlas (a collection of maps), for it was on this day in the year 1570 that the world’s first modern-day atlas, ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’ (Theatre of the World) was published. This guide offers links to resources pertaining to Abraham Ortelius that are held in the Library of Congress.These resources include links to catalogued records for the Theatrvm orbis Terrarvm and other books written by Abraham Ortelius, selected reference sources, selected digitized images of his published works and external links. The Library of Congress holds numerous editions of the atlas. Later volumes were published posthumously. Twenty-five editions were published from 1570 to the year of Ortelius's death in 1598. The first Theatrvm orbis Terrarvm was published in 1570 and later revised and expanded into 31 editions. He included a list of the cartographers whose maps were printed in the atlas. Abraham Ortelius created an atlas with maps of a uniform size, arranged by continents and regions, with descriptions on the reverse of every map. Before the atlas was published custom "map books" were ordered and bound for individual users. Ortelius published the first modern atlas, the Theatrvm orbis Terrarvm or Theatre of the World in Antwerp in 1570. He became a map publisher during the 1560s. He began his career as an engraver and map colorist. Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was born in Antwerp, Belgium. ![]()
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