Theatrum Orbis Terrarumi

The book that set the pattern every later atlas followed: uniform, up-to-date maps bound in one volume with text. Ortelius published it in Antwerp in 1570 with 53 copper-engraved maps, most of them the work of Frans Hogenberg, and it grew to 167 maps in later versions. It was a commercial hit,…

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