
Ortelius and his successors kept his list of map authors up-to-date. Tabularum geographicarum", is one of the major peculiarities of the atlas. This he added the names of many other cartographers and geographers to his list. the original mapmakers), thus introducing for the first time the concept of footnoting to Western scholarship. Ortelius reduced the best available maps to a uniform format.įurther, the Theatrum was the first major printed work of any kind to include scholarly citations of authorities The Theatrum consists of two elements text and maps. Shape and contents set the standard for later atlases when the center of the map trade moved from Antwerp to Amsterdam. ”It's great commercial success enabled it to make a great contribution to geographical culture throughout Europe at the end of the sixteenth century”- Skelton. ”It was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps of the countries of the world based only on contemporary knowledge since the days of Ptolemy, and in that sense may be called the first modern atlas.” – R.V. File:Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Frontpage.The publication of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1570 marked an epoch in the history of cartography.File:Persici Sive Sopho Rvm Regni Typvs.The Ortelius map of Persia, Antwerp, 1570.jpg.File:Persian Empire Abraham Ortelius.jpg.File:Outline of the Ottoman Empire from the Theatro d'el Orbe de la Tierra de Abraham Ortellius Anvers 1602 updated from 1570 edition.jpg.File:Ortelius 1592 St Patrick's Purgatory Map.jpg.File:Ortelius 1579 British Isles Map.jpg.File:Ortelius - Maris Pacifici 1589.jpg.File:Ortelius - Eryn, Britannicae Insulae.jpg.File:Ortelius, Abraham Septentrionalivm regionvm descrip.jpg.File:MapoftheVoyageoftheArgonauts Caucasus.jpg.File:MapoftheVoyageoftheArgonauts Black Sea.jpg.File:Lotharingiae typus ortelius 1588.jpg.Ortelius) Detail from map of Iceland 1585.jpg File:Frans Francken (II), Kunst- und Raritätenkammer (1636).jpg.File:Faroe stamp 008 map of the nordic countries 120 oyru.jpg.File:Faroe stamp 006 map of the nordic countries 80 oyru.jpg.File:Faroe stamp 004 map of the nordic countries 60 oyru.jpg.File:Faroe stamp 002 map of the nordic countries 10 oyru.jpg.File:Descriptio Germaniae inferioris Nederlanden 1573.png.File:Chinesische Mauer (Ortelius 1584).jpg.Persici Sive Sopho Rvm Regni Typvs.The Ortelius map of Persia, Antwerp, 1570.jpg File:CEM-10-Tartariae-sive-Magni-Chami-Regni-South-2518.jpg.File:CEM-10-Tartariae-sive-Magni-Chami-Regni-2516.jpg.File:CEM-09-Asiae-Nova-Descriptio-Tartaria-2508 Caucasus.jpg.File:CEM-09-Asiae-Nova-Descriptio-Tartaria-2508.jpg.File:CEM-09-Asiae-Nova-Descriptio-2507.jpg.File:Abraham Ortelius by Peter Paul Rubens.jpg.File:Abraham Ortelius and Jan van Keerbergen.File:Abraham Ortelius after Jacobo Castaldi - Romaniae, (quae olim Thracia dicta) vicinarvmqe regionum, vti Bvlgariae, Walachiae, Syrfiae, etc.File:Abraham Ortelius Map of Europe.jpg.File:Abraham Ortelius Map of Asia 1595.jpg.File:Abraham Ortelius - Tvrcici imperii descriptio.jpg.File:Abraham Ortelius - Romania, Bvlgaria, Walachia et Syrfia.jpg.


File:1579 Ortelius Map of Calais and Vermandois, France and Vicinity - Geographicus - Calais-ortelius-1579.jpg.File:1572 Typus Orbis Terrarum Ortelius.jpg.File:1570 Ortelius Map of Asia (first edition) - Geographicus - AsiaeNovaDescriptio-ortelius.jpg.File:03 - Ducatus Urbini Nova Et Exacta Descriptio, 1606 - Giovanni Battista Urints.jpg.The following list shows the first 100 pages that use this file only.
