![]() Four more Additamenta were to follow, the last one appearing in 1597. In 1573, Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. Map of Flanders from the Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574 Its immediate precursor and prototype was a collection of thirty-eight maps of European lands, and of Asia, Africa, Tartary and Egypt, gathered together by the wealth and enterprise, and through the agents, of Ortelius's friend and patron, Gillis Hooftman (1521–1581), lord of Cleydael and Aertselaer: most of these were printed in Rome, eight or nine only in the Southern Netherlands. Errors, of course, abound, both in general conceptions and in detail thus South America is initially very faulty in outline, but corrected in the 1587 French edition, and in Scotland the Grampians lie between the Forth and the Clyde but, taken as a whole, this atlas with its accompanying text was a monument of rare erudition and industry. Most of the maps were admittedly reproductions (a list of 87 authors is given in the first Theatrum by Ortelius himself, growing to 183 names in the 1601 Latin edition), and many discrepancies of delineation or nomenclature occur. Three Latin editions of this (besides a Dutch, a French and a German edition) appeared before the end of 1572 twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius's death in 1598 and several others were published subsequently, for the atlas continued to be in demand until about 1612. On, Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp issued Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the "first modern atlas" (of 53 maps). Map of the Persian Empire from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ![]() Quietis cultor sine lite, uxore, prole (meaning “served quietly, without accusation, wife, and offspring.”), reads the inscription on his tombstone. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp, were marked by public mourning. His death on 28 June 1598, and his burial in the church of St. In 1596 he received a presentation from Antwerp city, similar to that afterwards bestowed on Rubens. In this last edition, Ortelius considers the possibility of continental drift, a hypothesis proved correct only centuries later). ![]() In 1578 he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography by his Synonymia geographica (issued by the Plantin press at Antwerp and republished in expanded form as Thesaurus geographicus in 1587 and again expanded in 1596. ![]() In England Ortelius's contacts included William Camden, Richard Hakluyt, Thomas Penny, puritan controversialist William Charke, and Humphrey Llwyd, who would contribute the map of England and Wales to Ortelius's 1573 edition of the Theatrum. He also published a two-sheet map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of the Brittenburg castle on the coast of the Netherlands in 1568, an eight-sheet map of Asia in 1567, and a six-sheet map of Spain before the appearance of his atlas. ![]() This map subsequently appeared in reduced form in the Terrarum (the only extant copy is in now at Basel University Library). In 1564 he published his first map, Typus Orbis Terrarum, an eight-leaved wall map of the world, on which he identified the Regio Patalis with Locach as a northward extension of the Terra Australis, reaching as far as New Guinea. ![]()
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