Abraham Ortelius (/ɔːrˈtiːliəs/; also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels; 4 or 14 April 1527 – 28 June 1598) was a cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer... 25 KB (2,714 words) - 07:16, 20 March 2024 |
World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas. Written by Abraham Ortelius, strongly encouraged by Gillis Hooftman and originally printed on 20... 11 KB (1,167 words) - 12:48, 18 April 2024 |
Arthur Holmes later proposed mantle convection for that mechanism. Abraham Ortelius (Ortelius 1596), Theodor Christoph Lilienthal (1756), Alexander von Humboldt... 45 KB (4,749 words) - 01:09, 10 April 2024 |
World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas. Prepared by Abraham Ortelius and originally printed on May 20, 1570 in Antwerp, it consisted of... 73 KB (8,674 words) - 08:07, 15 April 2024 |
Abraham Ortelius. Alongside the sumptuous maps of that book Mercator's un-ornamented new maps looked very unattractive. Despite the death of Ortelius... 99 KB (12,809 words) - 08:25, 1 April 2024 |
region already well known to the Europeans (e.g., just Guangdong on Abraham Ortelius' 1570 map), and to place the mysterious Cathay somewhere inland. It... 27 KB (3,107 words) - 03:09, 11 March 2024 |
1531, and the Flemish cartographers Gerardus Mercator in 1538 and Abraham Ortelius in 1570. Schöner's concepts influenced the Dieppe school of mapmakers... 46 KB (5,848 words) - 03:05, 27 April 2024 |
Marcel Van den Broecke (section Ortelius) the life and works of the Antwerp cartographer Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). In 1996 he published Ortelius Atlas Maps, with in 2011 a new edition, rewritten... 8 KB (1,022 words) - 09:24, 29 December 2023 |