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@JordanNuttall
"Printed in 1567, this Latin volume by #AbrahamOrtelius...To accept that #Tartaria held a place within historical consciousness requires little more than trusting the record as it was written. To deny it, however, demands something far greater, the assumption that generations of scholars, cartographers, travellers, and compilers somehow participated in a vast and unnecessary illusion, repeating and elaborating upon a fiction from which they gained neither profit nor prestige."
#Scythia #Sarmatia #Mongal #Cathay
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🗺️ Europa al filo del siglo XVII: el mapa de finales del siglo XVI
Introducción A finales del siglo XVI, Europa vivía una transformación profunda. La política, la religión y la ciencia remodelaban el continente mientras los primeros grandes cartógrafos trataban de dibujar, con asombrosa precisión, un mundo que aún no se comprendía del todo.Los mapas de aquella época no solo reflejaban fronteras, sino también poder, ambición y fe. Eran auténticas obras de arte,…
Source: World map depicting the face of a hooded fool, from Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum (1587). Colored copperplate engraving, c. 1587. Graphic Collection, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg.
Hoe het Huis te Britten verscheen en verdween
Een hedendaagse verbeelding van Brittenburg; bron beeld: bndestem.nl In Katwijk aan Zee verdwijnt de Rijn in de Noordzee. Op die plek vonden we ook het Huis te Britten oftewel Brittenburg. Daarover het volgende in De canon van Nederland in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek: De Brittenburg of het ‘Huis te Britten’ figureert prominent op een afbeelding in een beroemd boek van de Italiaanse historicus…
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Abraham Ortelius / The world under the fool's cap, 1587
Map of Iceland by Abraham Ortelius (c. 1590)
Abraham Ortelius - Italiae Novissima Descriptio Auctore Jacobo Cataldo Pedemontano, 1608