8/11/2023 0 Comments Mapa de abraham ortelius![]() ![]() This map and the Hondius and Le Clerc rare map of 1589 (known only in the 1602 edition) have a curious and not fully understood relationship as to which is truly the first map of the Pacific, although because no example of the 1589 Hondius-Le Clerc has been discovered, this map retains primacy. ![]() The treatment of America and most notably the Northwest Coast is reminiscent of Hondius’ America. The map reflects a much smaller body of water than the true size of the Pacific. This was the first map to focus on the Pacific Ocean. The Solomons, or Melanesia, are located, as are some of the islands of Micronesia. Among other notable features, it is detached from Terra Australis. New Guinea appears very different to Ortelius’ world map of 1588, suggesting he may have drawn additional information from an unrecorded voyage. An odd ‘Isla de Plata’ appears above Japan. Ortelius shows the Moluccas and the Philippines, already the site of considerable Dutch activity and a misshapen Japan. It is based upon Gerard Mercator’s world map of 1569, with details from 25 Portuguese manuscript maps of Bartolomeo de Lasso which Plancius obtained and later used for his own world map. Valuable journal of record as well as scholarship.The Maris Pacifici map was first issued in 1590. Has contained a full complement of scholarly aids in the form of book reviews,īibliography, and chronicles, all of which have made Imago Mundi a Illustrated (recent volumes have included color plates). All articles represent original research, are refereed, and are well A multi-disciplinary approach was adopted Mundi publishes exclusively in English with foreign language abstracts ThereafterĮnglish was used with, very occasionally, French. From 1975 to 2003 publication was regular. It was founded in Berlin in 1935 by the Russian émigré Leoīagrow as an annual publication, although only five volumes appeared betweenġ9. Imago Mundi is the only English-language scholarly periodical devotedĮxclusively to the history of pre-modern maps, mapping, and map-related ideasįrom anywhere in the world. It is concluded that Ortelius was not a geographer in the same way Ptolemy was, and that Ortelius was using geography as a philosopher and his world map as an illustration of his moral and religious thinking. The map is contradictory, however for Ortelius's accurate and up-to-date presentation of the physical world is qualified by a verbal statement that the world is 'nothing', a mere pinpoint in the immensity of the universe. As in emblems, the words on Ortelius's map are not there to explain or to comment on what is seen but to give the image meaning the purpose of the map is to invite contemplation of God's world. Attention is drawn to the content of the texts on the map, to Ortelius's notion of geography as the eye of history, and to the importance in the Renaissance of the emblem as a conceit, or device, in the system of acquisition and transmission of knowledge. In this paper, the map of the world, which (as in Ptolemy's Geography) opens Ortelius's Theatrum, is analysed to show how Ortelius's concept of space was very different from Ptolemy's. Although the close association of word and image in medieval cartography is widely acknowledged, the significance of the relationship after the rediscovery of Ptolemy's Geography and throughout the Renaissance has been overlooked, despite Abraham Ortelius's choice of the term 'Reader' for users of the Theatrum orbis terrarum (1570). ![]()
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