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Abraham Ortelius | Born | Map Maker

Celebrating Abraham Ortelius |Map Maker


Abraham Ortelius was a Flemish mapmaker and geographer expert, conventionally recognized because of the creator of the primary fashionable atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

Bio
Born: 04/14/1527
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Died: 07/04/1598
Age: 71
Movements Realism
Nationality Flemish
Expertise Cartography Engraving

Abraham Ortelius Atlas


The fifty-three maps within the atlas diagrammatical everything western Europeans in 1570 knew regarding the form of the planet. Of course, there was a great deal that western Europeans in 1570 did not realize the form of the planet - beginning with Australia and Antarctic continent.

Abraham Ortelius Facts


Ortelius is sometimes considered the first person to have theorized about continental drift. He believed he could see where the Americas had split apart from Europe.
In 1575, he was appointed the geographer to Spain’s King Philip II.
At the time of its publication, Ortelius’ atlas was the most expensive book ever created.



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