by his uncle Jakob van Meteren and autodidactically Greek, Latin and mathematics; since 1547 member of the Antwerpen guild of printers
Netherlands
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1st ed. 1570, between 1570 & 1612 published in 42 editions in 7 languages: Latin, German, Dutch, French, spanisch, Englisch & Italian) ; map "The East Indies" (Antwerp 1570) ;
cartographer ->Gerhard Mercator ; for printer Christoph Plantin / Christoffel Plantijn in Antwerpe, A. O. hand-coloured hundreds of maps ;
cartographical, geographical, and topographic map-making and copper-engraving ; hand-colouring of hundreds of maps
www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/desbillons/atlas.html and www.orteliusmaps.com/
P. H. Meurer: Fontes cartographici Orteliani: das "Theatrum orbis terrarum"& seine Kartenquellen (Weinheim 1991) ; Marcel van den Broecke: A. O.atlas maps: Illustrated Guide (1996) ; A. O.& The First Atlas-Essays (1998) ; Nils Büttner: Die Erfindung der Landschaft (Göttingen 2000: 69) ; D. Woodward: Hist. Cartogr. 3: 603 ; Grees 2002: 16f. ; Abraham Ortelius. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Gedruckt zu Nuermberg durch Johann Koler Anno MDLXXII. Mit einer Einführung & Erläuterungen v. Ute Schneider (2nd ed., Darmstadt 2007) ; Giorgio Mangani: Il mondo di Abrama Ortelio. Misticismo, geografia collezionismo nel Rinascimento dei Paesi Bassi, Ferrara 1998; Peter H. Meurer: Fontes Cartographici Orteliani. Das Theatrum Orbis Terrarum von Abraham Ortelius und seine Kartenquellen (Weinheim 1991); John Blake: Vermessung der Meere, 2007: 8 & 46ff. ; Walter 1994: plates 11B, 11C, 11D, 11E, 11F, 11G & 19 ; Escardó 2022: 46f.
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