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Published on : 30 August, 2017 Published by : LitStackEditor

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On this day, May 20, in 1570, the first modern atlas was printed in Antwerp, Belgium. Also known as the Ortelius atlas (after the man who wrote it and had it printed, Abraham Ortelius), it consisted of a collection of uniform map sheets and bibliographic reference texts bound to form a book printed from specially engraved copper plates. As exploration of the globe pushed forward, Ortelius regularly revised and expanded his atlas until his death in 1598; the original atlas had 70 maps and 87 references, by 1612 it had 167 maps and 183 references (through 31 editions).

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