![]() Ortelius ascribed the map of China to a ‘Ludouicus Georgius’, now generally believed to be a Latinised name of the Portuguese cartographer Luis Jorge de Barbuda (fl. The earliest printed map of China in the European cartographical tradition is found in the 1584 edition of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first world atlas in a modern sense (1st ed. They present a striking picture of the cartographical and geographical development of the Dutch main economic region. On this website, the Utrecht University Library displays approximately 120 maps of the provinces Holland and Utrecht from the period 1558-1882 that were donated to the library by a private owner. ![]() So faithful, in fact, that even the mistakes of the river Vecht and the island Putten were assimilated! Many other examples of such copying behaviour can be found in the collection Maps of Holland and Utrecht. For his atlas, Keerbergen made, among others, a faithful copy of the map of Holland. A few years later, in 1601, another Antwerper, Johannes Keerbergen, brought a competing pocket atlas on the market. Furthermore, the island Putten, in southern Holland, is completely missing. On this map, although splendidly engraved, the river Vecht flows from Utrecht to Amsterdam instead of to Muiden. In 1595, the Antwerper Filips Galle published a map of the regions of Holland for the pocket atlas Epitome, an abbreviated version of Abraham Ortelius’ famous world atlas. Things were no different in the 16th century. They sometimes make mistakes and they also like to copy each other.
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