Abraham Ortelius
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Abraham Ortelius was a cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer from Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands. He is recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Along
Ortelius by Peter Paul Rubens, 1633, after a 1570s engraving by Philip Galle
1570 Typus Orbis Terrarum
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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1609
Terra Australis
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Terra Australis was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Its existence was not based on any survey or direct observation,
Abraham Ortelius
…Traditiones Descripto”, an eight-leaved wall map of the world, on which he identified the Regio Patalis with Locach as a northward extension of the Terra Australis, reaching as far as New Guinea. (the only extant copy is now at Basel University Library). He also published a two-sheet map of Egypt in 1565, a plan…
Western hemisphere of the Johannes Schöner globe from 1520
Guillaume Le Testu's 1556 Cosmographie Universel, 4me projection, where the northward extending promontory of the Terre australle is called Grande Jaue
Tabula geographica Regni Chile from 1646 depicts Terra Australis Incognita to the east of Tierra del Fuego.