Abraham Ortelius
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Abraham Ortelius was a Flemish mapmaker and geographer who lived from 1527 to 1598 and helped establish the modern practice of collecting maps into organized atlases. His work was influential in shaping how people visualized and understood the geography of the world during the Renaissance period.
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- Born
- 1527
- Died
- 1598
- Works
- 68
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- Abrahami Ortelii Antuerpiani Thesaurus geographicus
- Abrahami Ortelii Theatri orbis terrarvm parergon
- Gotfr. Hegeniti Itinerarium frisio-hollandicum, et Abr. Ortelii Itinerarium gallo-brabanticum ...
- C. Iulii Caesaris Quae extant ex emendatione Ios. Scaligeri
- Petri Divaei ... Opera varia: scilicet rerum Lovaniensium libri IV
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Abraham Ortelius (/ɔːrˈtiːliəs/ or-TEE-lee-əs; also Ortels, Orthellius or Wortels; 4 or 14 April 1527 – 28 June 1598) 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 ('Theatre of the World'). Along with Gemma Frisius and Gerardus Mercator, Ortelius is generally considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography and geography. He was a notable figure of this school in its golden age (approximately 1570s–1670s) and an important geographer of Spain during the age of discovery. The publication of his atlas in 1570 is often considered as the official beginning of the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography. He was the first person proposing that the continents were joined before drifting to their present positions.
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