![]() Burden 39 and 64 Koeman III, Ort 29 Phillips 374 see PMM 91 (1570 edition) Sabin 57693 Shirley 122 Tooley Maps and Map-Makers p.29. This historical World Map, called TYPUS ORBIS TERRARUM, was first published by Abraham Ortelius (also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels, 4 or 14 April 1527 28 June 1598), Spanish Netherlands (modern Belgium), in 1570, and it shows the continents and oceans known at the time. The Atlas includes Ortelius' famous world map: "Typus Orbis Terrarum," followed by his map of the Americas "Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio," (dated 1587, Ortelius’ third plate), maps of Asia, Africa, Europe and numerous regional maps. Antarctica), contains what is "probably the earliest allegorical representation of America" (Koeman). The engraved allegorical title with its five female figures representing the five continents (one a mere bust, symbolizing the mostly unexplored continent of "Magellenica," i.e. His list of contributors, which included not only the authors of the original maps but other cartographers and geographers as well, has been of particular value for historians of cartography. This enabled him to compile the "Atlas of the Whole World" from the best available sources. Ortelius amassed a large private collection of maps and corresponded with most map-makers and map-sellers in Antwerp and abroad. It was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps of the countries of the world based only on contemporary knowledge and in that sense may be called the first modern atlas" (Tooley). "The publication of of this atlas marked an epoch in the history of cartography. "It was the Atlas of the Renaissance par excellence, embodying and expressing as it did the spirit of free inquiry that characterized the age"(Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, p.324). The atlas is the first to contain maps printed in a uniform style and format and to display a catalogue of the authors whose source Ortelius used in the drawing of the maps. It was the most authoritative and successful of such works during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and it made Abraham Ortelius one of the most prominent geographers of his time. First published in 1570, the Theatrum orbis terrarum is universally recognized as the first modern atlas. The last and most complete edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum published during Ortelius’s lifetime. SUPERBLY COLORED COPY OF ORTELIUS' ENLARGED THEATRUM, ASSEMBLING 115 UNIFORM MAPS OF THE WORLD AND 32 MAPS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, INCLUDING THE MOST RENOWNED CARTOGRAPHERS OF THAT PERIOD Provenance: Alderman of the Flemish town of Kermt, date 1670 (ownership inscription on title partly vanished). (Some minor browning and staining mostly to margins and versos of maps, a few corners or short marginal tears repaired, some light staining and ink stain to allegorical title border, small abrasion to image of India map 108.) Contemporary Dutch vellum gilt (rebacked in vellum, some minor staining). Engraved allegorical title, engraved portrait, and 147 hand-colored double-page maps, most by Frans Hogenberg, mounted on guards, woodcut border surround to the “Parergon” title, ALL FINELY COLORED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND. ![]() ģ parts in one volume, comprising modern maps the Parergon and Nomenclator, 2° (470 x 300 mm). In these formulas, x should take the sign of λ.ORTELIUS, Abraham. Given a radius of sphere R, central meridian λ 0 and a point with geographical latitude φ and longitude λ, plane coordinates x and y can be computed using the following formulas when λ ≤ π / 2: y = R φ x = ± R ( | λ − λ 0 | − F + F 2 − y 2 R 2 ), where F = 1 2 ( π 2 4 | λ − λ 0 | + | λ − λ 0 | ) The projection (and indeed Ortelius's maps) were widely copied by other mapmakers such as Giovanni Pietro Maffei, Fernando de Solis, and Matteo Ricci. The projection reached a wide audience via the surpassingly popular Typus Orbis Terrarum of Abraham Ortelius beginning in 1570. The front hemisphere is identical to Petrus Apianus's 1524 globular projection. The projection's first known use was by Battista Agnese (flourished 1535–1564) around 1540, although whether the construction method was truly identical to Ortelius's or not is unclear because of crude drafting and printing. It is similar in structure to a pseudocylindrical projection but does not qualify as one because the meridians are not equally spaced along the parallels. It is neither conformal nor equal-area but instead offers a compromise presentation. The Ortelius oval projection is a map projection used for world maps largely in the late 16th and early 17th century. The greener, the more areal inflation or deflation. Color shows angular deformation and areal inflation/deflation in a bivariate scheme: The lighter the color, the less distortion. ![]() Tissot indicatrix on Ortelius oval projection, 15° graticule.
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