Published in Antwerp in 1570, the Theatrum orbis terrarum did something no previous book had doneit presented the world in all its component parts, offering the chance to see our planet as a place of staggering variety and ultimate unity. It was the world s first atlas. Brainchild of Abraham Ortelius, the Theatrum reflected the enormous vitality of the era, the prevailing zest for exploration and discovery, and the linked activities of international commerce and mapmaking. Paul Binding has immersed himself in the Antwerp ...
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Published in Antwerp in 1570, the Theatrum orbis terrarum did something no previous book had doneit presented the world in all its component parts, offering the chance to see our planet as a place of staggering variety and ultimate unity. It was the world s first atlas. Brainchild of Abraham Ortelius, the Theatrum reflected the enormous vitality of the era, the prevailing zest for exploration and discovery, and the linked activities of international commerce and mapmaking. Paul Binding has immersed himself in the Antwerp that produced Ortelius and his atlas, and he draws on a mass of letters, personal documents, maps, and pictures to bring it vividly to life. A masterly volume that stands as a tribute to the human need to impose order and reason on an all-too-turbulent world."
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This book tells the story of a man (Abraham Ortelius) born into a well-to-do Antwerp family in the early 1500s.
From an early age, he was driven by an obsession for learning about the world around him.
He became a collector to feed that passion, gradually amassing great knowledge and plenty of material on maps of the known world. Ortelius used this knowledge and material to involve himself in the printing business, of which Antwerp was the then-centre of expertise.
Ortelius like many of his fellow countrymen, was an adherent to the Catholic religion.
As a businessman at a time of growing exploitation of worlds outside of Europe, he was able to collate plate-made copies of his map collection and publish them for profit to an admiring audience.
In doing this he became conflicted by his awareness of the wider world and huge populations of which the Church knew nothing.
Equally as troubling, he suspected the wider world knew nothing of Catholicism.
Being a subject of the King Of Spain whose promotion of religion was almost fanatical, he juggled main-stream Church teachings with his factual worldly knowledge. Reliance on old wisdoms and philosophies was not important to his rich customers.
Paul Binding weaves the facts about the map collations, with the inevitable torment of the map-maker dealing with the facts of the earth in which we live, with the sometimes restricting philosophies of his religion.
