Abraham Ortelius (/ɔːrˈtiːliəs/; juga dikenal sebagai Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels; 14 April 1527 – 28 Juni 1598) adalah seorang kartografer dan ahli geografi dari Flandria (kini bagian dari Belgia). Ia dikenal sebagai pembuat atlas modern pertama di dunia yang ia beri nama Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (bahasa Indonesia: Teater Dunia). Penerbitan atlas tersebut pada tahun 1570 diyakini sebagai penanda era kartografi Masa Keemasan Belanda sebagai bagian dari sejarah kartografi pada abad pertengahan. Ia juga dipercaya sebagai orang pertama yang mengemukakan hipotesis bahwa benua-benua yang ada di dunia pernah menyatu sebelum bergeser hingga posisinya saat ini.[1]
Bibliografi
Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Gedruckt zu Nuermberg durch Johann Koler Anno MDLXXII. Mit einer Einführung und Erläuterungen von Ute Schneider. Second unchanged edition (2. unveränd. Aufl). Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007.
H. E. Wauwermans, Histoire de l’école cartographique belge et anversoise (Antwerp, 1895), and article "Ortelius" in Biographie nationale (Belgian), vol. xvi. (Brussels, 1901);
J. H. Hessels, Abrahami Ortelii epistulae (Cambridge, England, 1887);
Max Rooses, Ortelius et Plantin (1880);
Meganck Tine, Erudite Eyes: Friendship, Art and Erudition in the Network of Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598), 2017, ISBN978-9004341678
Génard, "Généalogie d’Ortelius," in the Bulletin de la Soc. roy. de Géog. d’Anvers (1880 and 1881), Marcel van den Broecke (1996) Ortelius Atlas Maps (HeS Publishers, 't Goy-Houten, 1996) and Abraham Ortelius and the first atlas;
Essays commemorating the Quadricentennial of his Death, 1598–1998 Eds. Marcel van den Broecke, Peter van der Krogt and Peter Meurer (HeS Publishers, 't Goy-Houten, 1998).
Binding, Paul. Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas. Review Books: London, 2003.
Charles Wehrenberg, Before New York, Solo Zone, San Francisco 1995/2001, ISBN1-886163-16-2
Robert J. Karrow, Jr., Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and their Maps: Rio-bibliographies of the cartographers of Abraham Ortelius (Chicago, Speculum Orbis Press, 1992)
Wegener, Alfred (1966). The Origin of Continents and Oceans. New York: Dover. ISBN0-486-61708-4. Translated from the fourth revised German edition by John Biram.
Hess, H.H. (1960). "Nature of great oceanic ridges". Preprints of the 1st International Oceanographic Congress (New York, August 31 – September 12, 1959). Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science. (A). pp. 33–34.
Artikel ini menyertakan teks dari suatu terbitan yang sekarang berada pada ranah publik: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ortelius, Abraham". Encyclopædia Britannica. 20 (edisi ke-11). Cambridge University Press. hlm. 331–332.
Online Map, Americae sive novi orbis 1579, Ortelius, Abraham, published Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, early Handcoloured map of the Americas, Mer Pacifico [i.e. Pacific Ocean], Mer Atlantica [i.e. Atlantic Ocean] with Nova Guinea [i.e. New Guinea] and Terra del Fuego. This map is considered historically significant because Ortelius provided a popular and fairly accurate image of the Americas. The New World is heavily annotated with place-names documenting Ponce de Leon's penetration of the Southeast in 1521, the Gulf coast explorations of Navaez in 1521 and Cabeza de Vaca in 1528, as well as de Soto's expedition in 1539 combined with information from Cortes in Mexico, Franciscan Fr. de Nizza in the Southwest, and Cabrillo along the California coast in 1542, Dixon Map Collection at the State Library of New South Wales
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