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“All thinges vvhiche are vvritten of this countrie are so strange … may be beleeued. Of distant lands, the description of China is strikingly positive and respectful. We learn that the French are “very prompte of witt, curious, vnstedfaste, desirous of noveltie, enemies to quiett and peace, geven muche to pleasure and lust ” the Spanish are “much addicted to melacholie, vvhich make the graue in behauior and slow in theyr eantierprises ” and in Saxony “theyr drinke being for the most part beere, vvhereof they drinke extremelie.” While generally positive about most regions, the text reveals long-standing nationality characterizations. Continental Europe comprises the bulk of the maps America is but one map and the British Isles are scantily depicted in maps of Anglia, Scotia, and Hibernia. These were the first English-language world atlases.Ĭopies of this edition of Epitome include 123 full-page (but miniature) engraved maps with facing text that describe the region’s towns, people, topography, agriculture and mining, and other features of interest. The book came to England circa 1603 in two editions (of uncertain order), one translated from Latin and the other from Micheal Coignet’s French edition (the present copy).
By the time of his death in 1598, 25 editions had been printed, but none with English text until 1606.įor those who could not afford Theatrum, an oblong “pocket version” of the atlas, the Epitome, was published in 1577 with eleven editions printed within two decades. Ortelius continued to improve the maps and enlarge his atlas. Three Latin editions and editions in Dutch, French, and German appeared before 1573. His first edition of Theatrum contained 70 maps on 53 leaves, presented in similar style with supporting scholarly text, and logically arranged by continents. He was trained as an engraver, traveled widely, became interested in map making through his friendship with Gerardus Mercator, and began compiling maps from the best cartographers of the time. Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theatre of the worldeĪbraham Ortelius is widely recognized as the inventor of the modern atlas with the publication of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1570.
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