Indiae orientalis ... .
Creator
Date Created
1570
Identifier
University of Otago Library Atlases: Dbl Oversize [Ref] - G1006 O7 1570
s4
Publisher
Lausanne : Sequoia.
Description
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), rightly called the 'Father of Modern Cartography', developed the idea of assembling a compendium of maps to form an atlas. The first edition of his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" was published in 1570 and it was a great success. This facsimile edition depicts China and Japan, albeit with a rather bulbous island of Honshu, and a much diminished and broken version of Hokkaido, Shikoku and Kyushu. Ortelius prided himself on using the best possible sources for the maps and the textual descriptions; later sixteenth century editions depicted the Great Wall of China.
Contributor
Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Format
Maps
Lithographs
Extent
420 mm
Temporal Coverage
Source
Theatrum orbis terrarum (Lausanne : Sequoia, 1964), fol. 48.
Language
lat
Is Part Of
Theatrum orbis terrarum
Is Referenced By
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gnrlort.html
Is Version Of
Theatrum orbis terrarum. Antwerp, 1570
Relation
Facsimile
Files
Collection
Citation
Aalbers, B. J., “Indiae orientalis ... .,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 25, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/index.php/items/show/6007.