The map that gave Europe its picture of the world was printed in Antwerp on May 20, 1570
Abraham Ortelius spent years collecting the best available maps of every known region and standardised them into a single format
Before this, geographic knowledge existed as scattered scrolls of inconsistent scale and projection
A navigator moving from one chart to another was moving between completely different systems of measurement... Ortelius ended that
His Theatrum Orbis Terrarum went through forty-two editions in his lifetime
The Low Lands did not just conquer the world
It measured it first
@JDSnel Ok, vanuit hoefijzertheorie dicht bij elkaar. Maar voorzitter. Grote foto Mandela op kantoor. Op zn minst apart. Maar goed we komen er niet helemaal uit hier😊