![]() Quietis cultor sine lite, uxore, prole (meaning - “served quietly, without accusation, wife, and offspring.” ), reads the inscription on his tombstone. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp, were marked by public mourning. His death on 28 June 1598, and his burial in the church of St. In 1596 he received a presentation from Antwerp city, similar to that afterwards bestowed on Rubens. In this last edition, Ortelius considers the possibility of continental drift, a hypothesis proved correct only centuries later). In 1578 he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography by his Synonymia geographica (issued by the Plantin press at Antwerp and republished in expanded form as Thesaurus geographicus in 1587 and again expanded in 1596. In England Ortelius' contacts included William Camden, Richard Hakluyt, Thomas Penny, puritan controversialist William Charke, and Humphrey Llwyd, who would contribute the map of England and Wales to Ortelius's 1573 edition of the Theatrum. He also published a two-sheet map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of the Brittenburg castle on the coast of the Netherlands in 1568, an eight-sheet map of Asia in 1567, and a six-sheet map of Spain before the appearance of his atlas. This map subsequently appeared in reduced form in the Terrarum (the only extant copy is in now at Basel University Library). In 1564 he published his first map, Typus Orbis Terrarum, an eight-leaved wall map of the world, on which he identified the Regio Patalis with Locach as a northward extension of the Terra Australis, reaching as far as New Guinea. In 1560, however, when travelling with Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator’s influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer. He supplemented his income trading in books, prints, and maps, and his journeys included yearly visits to the Frankfurt book and print fair where he met Gerardus Mercator in 1554. He traveled extensively in Europe, and is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces in southern, western, northern, and eastern Germany (e.g., 1560, 1575–1576) France (1559–1560) England and Ireland (1576), and Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 15).īeginning as a map-engraver, in 1547 he entered the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as an illuminator of maps. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy. Abraham remained close to his cousin Emanuel van Meteren who would later move to London. Following the death of Ortelius' father, his uncle Jacobus van Meteren returned from religious exile in England to take care of Ortelius. In 1535, the family had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism. ![]() ![]() The Orthellius family were originally from Augsburg, a Free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. And through the rock on both sides of the Taiwan studies, found somewhere off the coast of rock formation in Africa, just off the coast of South America split and since the same strata, confirm two continents were once connected again.Ortelius was born in the city of Antwerp, which was then in the Habsburg Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). ![]() Visible once for a time, America, Africa and Europe are connected.,Continental margin of the match: to Africa and South America together on both sides of the Atlantic, on both sides of the continental margin can fit and perfect fit. In addition, there is evidence to prove that the South African open PuShan and Buenos Aires mountain is a butcher. Mainland mobile separation because of the tidal push.,Geological evidence: the Appalachian mountains is northeast to southwest, near to the Atlantic ocean on the west bank is interrupted, and geological research proved Scandinavia mountains with Scotland, Ireland and the Appalachian mountains. Main content for the ancient times the earth is only a piece of "pangea" or "pangea's vast land, known as" pan ocean "surrounded by waters, about 200 million years ago" pangea began to burst, to about 2, three million years ago, continental drift of form now the basic landscape of seven continents and five oceans.įirst, assume the interior of the earth is basaltic, but the surface is granite, and mainland China like iceberg floating on the surface, float on melting molten basalt. The bold theory has been ignored by academic circles until the 1960 s ocean expansion that appear, to development of continental drift said later to more in this paper, the theory of plate tectonics. Continental drift theory initially by autrey uz (Abraham Ortelius) is put forward in 1596, German scientists later Alfred wagener in 1912 are discussed, in the Chinese theory of continental drift, "continental drift hypothesis" shall mean the same concept. ![]()
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