![]() Durante siglos los europeos lo buscaron, primero en Asia y después en África. Esta figura, el rey mítico de las tierras africanas, libraba supuestamente una guerra contra los infieles del continente. En la esquina superior izquierda encontramos, en cartela, una dedicatoria al rey David encima de la cual puede verse el escudo de armas del preste Juan. Mapa calcográfico, coloreado y enmarcado en orla, de África central y este perteneciente a la edición española de la obra Theatrum Orbis Terrarum de Ortelius (Theatro de la Tierra universal). Cline, "The Ortelius Maps of New Spain, 1579, and related contemporary materials, 1560-1610" in Imago Mundi XVI, p. Near a town called Tamatao, not far from Panuco, stands a hill on which are two fountains, the one discharging black pitch, the other red, scalding hot'" (H. The Spaniards have established two settlements, the one called Panuco, named for its river, and the other Santiago of the Valleys. As a people they are civilized enough in other ways. Along its seacoasts and on its river banks they live on an abundance of fish, but inland on a grain they call maize. Again, the text is brief: 'This also is a region of North America and part of New Spain. Little attempt seems to have been made to Latinize the native place-names. "The area is treated in relatively fine detail, from about Tuxpan northward to an exaggerated version of the Rio de las Palmas, close to the Tropic of Cancer. Even so, it is still unknown and anonymous. Because its reckoning of longitude paralleled that of the Culiacan depiction, using Toledo as a base point, Brandmair conjectured that perhaps the two were by the same hand. "The map of the Guasteca bears neither date nor author. ![]() La Huasteca is the Mexican region located along the Gulf of Mexico, including parts of the states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Puebla, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, and Guanajuato. A BEAUTIFULLY HAND-COLORED engraved map of the Huasteca region of Mexico, from the 1588 Spanish edition of Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, with Spanish text on the verso. Fine engraved map of La Huasteca, with original hand color in full, surrounded by a border of yellow wash, the title within a circular cartouche decorated with a bull's head (some oxidation as expected, the margins a bit browned and spotted). Late in life, he also aided Welser in his edition of the Peutinger Table (1598).Single sheet, (9 x 11 ¼ inches). #MAPA ORTELIUS SERIES#In 1584 he issued his Nomenclator Ptolemaicus, a Parergon (a series of maps illustrating ancient history, sacred and secular). In 1578 he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography with his Synonymia geographica (issued by the Plantin press at Antwerp and republished as Thesaurus geographicus in 1596). In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy (his family, as early as 1535, had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism). In 1573, Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title of Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. ![]() Most of the maps in Ortelius' Theatrum were drawn from the works of a number of other mapmakers from around the world a list of 87 authors is given by Ortelius himself Later editions would also be issued in Spanish and English by Ortelius’ successors, Vrients and Plantin, the former adding a number of maps to the atlas, the final edition of which was issued in 1612. By the time of his death in 1598, a total of 25 editions were published including editions in Latin, Italian, German, French, and Dutch. ![]() On May 20, 1570, Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum first appeared in an edition of 70 maps. Ortelius also published a map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of Brittenburg Castle on the coast of the Netherlands, and a map of Asia, prior to 1570. The only extant copy of this great map is in the library of the University of Basel. In 1564 he completed his “ mappemonde", an eight-sheet map of the world. From that point forward, he devoted himself to the compilation of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World), which would become the first modern atlas. In 1560, while traveling with Gerard Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator’s influence, towards a career as a scientific geographer. His early career was as a business man, and most of his journeys before 1560, were for commercial purposes. In 1547 he entered the Antwerp guild of St Luke as afsetter van Karten. ![]() Ortelius started his career as a map colorist.
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