Koeman mentioned about the Parergon of Ortelius: This atlas of ancient geography must be regarded as a personal work of Ortelius. This particular map is based upon Gerard Mercators large world. The atlas consists of one engraved portrait of Ortelius by Philip Galle, a woodcut architectural title border, 30 engraved double-page maps and two engraved double-page views. For these and other reasons, Abraham Ortelius is called the father of modern cartography. The present edition of 1595 is usually bound with the 1595 Latin edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. For minor place-names to be readable, the. Mercator's world map had one nasty drawback. He knew good work, and he had a very high opinion of Ortelius. His own map of the world was an artistic triumph as well as an intellectual one. During the following years, more map were completed and the Parergon became an atlas in its own right. Mercator also saw the map as a work of art. Old, antique map of Japan - Korea, by Abraham Ortelius. His first remarkable map was a 8 sheet world map in the year 1564, but only three copies have survived. He established a business in dealing with books and drawing maps.
He studied mathematics, Greek and Latin and travelled a lot across Europe.
1598) Abraham Ortelius was born 1527 in Antwerp. The inspiration for this map may well have been Gastaldis large world map. Antique Maps by Abraham Ortelius (1527. The Parergon maps began appearing as supplements within Ortelius main work the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1579 with 3 maps. In 1564 he published his first map, a large and ambitious world wall map. An atlas of the ancient world by Abraham Ortelius.
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