Maps of the same dimensions providing a survey of the world as known upĪ portion of Abraham Ortelius' 1587 AmericaeĪs for historians of North Carolina, it is important to note that his Americae In 1570 he published his Theatrum orbis terrarum,Ĭonsidered to be the first modern atlas, being a handy collection of He had already acquired some renown and means when Wall map of Asia (1567), a wall map of Spain (1570), and a map of the ![]() Published in 1564 and was followed by a map of ancient Egypt (1565), a ![]() His first map, a wall map of the world, was The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography tells that he after he became a "dealer and collector of maps, Ortelius eventually started Ortelius' World Map of 1570, Typus Orbis TerrarumĪbraham Ortelius was admitted to Antwerp's Guild of Saint Luke as an illuminator of maps in 1547. It seems that England was the religious refuge of Europeans of this time, not unlike the United States gained famed for in the 18th and 19th centuries. Many North and South Carolinians can lay claim to that history. My Huguenot ancestor, Jean de Fonvielle came to Carolina from England after spending time there to escape Catholic persecution. It's interesting to note that some of his family had escaped religious persecution in Europe by living in England, much like Huguenot Frenchman from the siege of La Rochelle in 1627-8. Abraham learned Latin from his father and independently studied mathematics. His family was originally from Augsburg, however, Abraham was the eldest of three children of Leonard Ortels, an antique dealer in Antwerp. He met great men of the cartographic profession like Gerardus Mercator, whose 500th anniversary birth was celebrated on March 4th this year! Ortelius' comes up in 2027. ![]() By contrast with John Ogilby, who began his life as a dance-master and theatre owner and drew his map for the Lords Proprietors as a late-life indulgence, Abraham Ortelius began at the age of twenty in 1547 as an illustrator of maps.
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