Theatre of the World

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Theatre of the World is the English title of Abraham Ortelius’s pioneering 16th-century atlas, widely regarded as the first modern atlas of the world.

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Theatre of the World canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf atlas
cartographic work
author Abraham Ortelius
cartographer Abraham Ortelius
circulationRegion Europe
contains accompanying text for each map
index of place names
uniformly sized maps
countryOfOrigin Habsburg Netherlands
field geography
history of cartography
firstPublicationDate 1570
genre early modern scientific atlas
hasAlternativeTitle Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
surface form: Theatrum Orbis

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
surface form: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, sive, Atlas Novus
hasComponent engraved copperplate maps
letterpress text
hasEdition 1570 first edition
1573 expanded edition
1579 edition
late 16th-century enlarged editions
hasEnglishTitle Theatre of the World self-link
hasFormat folio volume
historicalSignificance milestone in the development of modern atlases
influenced later European atlases
influencedBy contemporary nautical charts
earlier Ptolemaic cartography
language Latin
mapProjectionUsed various 16th-century projections
notableFor integration of text and cartography
standardized map format
systematic collection of maps in book form
numberOfMapsInFirstEdition 53
originalTitle Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
placeOfPublication Antwerp
printedIn Antwerp printing houses
publicationCentury 16th century
publisher Gilles Coppens de Diest
regardedAs first modern atlas of the world
subject cartography
regional maps
world maps
timePeriodDepicted 16th-century known world
usedBy merchants
scholars
statesmen

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Theatrum Orbis Terrarum hasAlternativeTitle Theatre of the World
Theatre of the World hasEnglishTitle Theatre of the World self-link