ORTELIUS IAPONIAE FULL

This first edition contained seventy maps on fifty-three sheets. It was one of the most expensive books ever published. The atlas was completed in 1569, and in May of 1570, the Theatrum was available for sale.

ORTELIUS IAPONIAE FULL

In 1568 the production of individual maps for his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum was already in full swing. In 1565 he published a map of Egypt and a map of the Holy Land, a large map of Asia followed. The inspiration for this map may well have been Gastaldi's large world map. In 1564 he published his first map, a large and ambitious wall map of the world. In addition, he travelled a lot and visited Italy and France, made contacts everywhere with scholars and editors, and maintained extensive correspondence with them. Luke as an 'illuminator of maps.' Besides colouring maps, Ortelius was a dealer in antiques, coins, maps, and books, with the book and map trade gradually becoming his primary occupation.Д«usiness went well because his means permitted him to start an extensive collection of medals, coins, and antiques, as well as a library of many volumes. He learned Latin and studied Greek and mathematics.ДЄbraham and his sisters Anne and Elizabeth took up map colouring. The maker of the 'first atlas', the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570), was born on 4 April 1527 into an old Antwerp family. Then, in contrast to the types that appeared later, its imitators took it over almost without change. The Ortelius / Texeira type remained determinant until the middle of the seventeenth century. On the other hand, many names of places that the merchants and missionaries commonly visited are lacking, though they had been prominent on the maps of Europeans up to this time that were based purely on their observations. There, too, the important place names are included. For the first time in Western cartography, the eastern sections of the country, which Europeans had not yet visited, are also represented. The three main Islands, in particular Kyushu and Honshu, are separated from one another. Teixeira's map of Japan represents a combination of Portuguese and Japanese information, in which the latter dominates.

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