Map: "Tirolis Comitatus" and "Goritiae, Karsth, Chaczeolae, Carniolae, Histriae, et Windorum Marchae Descrip." Cartographer: Abraham OrteliusPrinting Date: 1575Medium: Copperplate engraved map.Size: 15.75 x 21.5Publisher: Antwerp: Ant Coppenius DiesthSeries: Theatrum Orbis TerrarumGenuine 16th century engraved map by Abraham Ortelius.
Abraham Ortelius (1527 - 1598) was a Flemish cartographer & geographer, celebrated as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). Ortelius' work, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps; this work can therefore be called the first atlas (although the term was not used until 20 years later by Mercator).