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- Title
Getting the Message of Abraham Ortelius' Heart-Shaped Map and Atlas.
- Authors
Inverso, Stephanie
- Abstract
In 1564, the celebrated Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius published his first cartographic work: a world map in the shape of a heart. "is map manifests a spiritual call toward world unity heavily influenced by the heterodox sect known as the Family of Love. Six years later, Ortelius published the first edition of his groundbreaking magnum opus, an atlas entitled !eatrum Orbis Terrarum. With this later work, the unorthodox message of his cordiform map was not erased but transmuted into the form of an atlas. Abraham Ortelius' example demonstrates how the ways in which knowledge circulated within humanist networks ensured that spiritual concerns, particularly unorthodox ones, continued to influence European cartography long after the rediscovery and translation of Ptolemy in the early fifteenth century.
- Subjects
ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1527-1598; PTOLEMY, 2nd century; MAPS; FIFTEENTH century; CARTOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL maps; CARTOGRAPHERS; WORLD maps; HUMANISTS
- Publication
Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2023, Vol 12, p179
- ISSN
2279-7149
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36253/JEMS-2279-7149-14390