Ortelius: Antique Map of Mexico, 1579
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This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied by De Bry, Quad and Hondius. Even though Herrera (Spain's Royal Cosmographer) and Wytfliet worked twenty years after Ortelius, they produced inferior maps of the area. Both cartouches in the map are copies of designs by Hans Vredeman de Vries. These were published for use by engravers, who would trace the patterns onto the copper plates, creating a mirror image of the original design when printed. The map shows an area corresponding roughly to the modern Mexican states of Michoacan, Jalisco, Mayarit, and Guerrero, plus the Valley of Mexico. Verso Text: Latin
Abraham Ortelius (1527 - 1598) was a Flemish cartographer & geographer, celebrated as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). Ortelius' work, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps; this work can therefore be called the first atlas (although the term was not used until 20 years later by Mercator).
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Ortelius: Antique Map of Mexico, 1579
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