![]() At bottom are four inset designs with text showing the following: a chronological history of the U.S. The map includes elaborately detailed renderings of George Washington, Hernan Cortez, and Montezuma at top to represent European expansion to the Americas. This route anticipates the construction of the transcontinental railroad by nearly 20 years. The map details a potential route for a railroad running from New York City, to Buffalo, to Chicago, then west along the Oregon Trail to Oregon City. The newly acquired land is boldly colored, standing in stark contrast to the rest of the U.S. The hand-colored map proclaims the Manifest Destiny, with the recent acquisition of Upper California and Texas at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War. dominance of the North American continent. This is a very detailed and graphic propaganda map of the United States expressing U.S. The broadside is elaborately hand-colored. The map was issued as an act of Congress by Phelps on Fulton Street, New York. entitled "Ornamental Map of the United States & Mexico" by Humphrey Phelps. Offered is an original 1847 ornamental map of the U.S. On 1stDibs, find original Abraham Ortelius prints, landscape prints and more. On May 18, 2008, a Google Doodle celebrated the 300th anniversary of Ortelius’s atlas. Wegener was widely ridiculed at the time, but the foundation of modern-day science of plate tectonics has its origins in his work. Much later, in 1912, German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed in a lecture and an article that the continents had once been locked together based on data he collected. Some have argued that the concept of continental drift is at least partly rooted in Ortelius’s 16th-century-era suggestion that the continents had once been joined together as a single mass of land before the Americas were pulled away from Europe and Africa. When he lined up maps of the coastlines of the continents, they matched - much like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. While creating his atlas, Ortelius observed that the coast of America shared geometrical similarities with the shores of Europe and Africa. It was the first of its kind and is now recognized as the first modern-day atlas. He eventually published Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theater of the World) - a comprehensive collection of maps that he bound into a book. Ortelius refocused his work in mapmaking after that fateful encounter. In 1554 he attended the annual Frankfurt Book Fair, where he met the highly respected cartographer Gerardus Mercator. Gleaning what he learned from his uncle, he became a dealer in books and prints. Ortelius was better known as a student of history and a collector of books and old coins than a cartographer - only initially garnering modest praise for his skills at mapmaking. ![]() Ortelius entered the Guild of Saint Luke in 1547 to become a map copier and colorist, but his hobbies overshadowed his studies. After his father's death when he was ten, he was raised by his uncle Jacob Van Meteren - a financier and printer of early English versions of the Bible. Ortelius was the eldest of the three children of an Antwerp merchant. ![]() He is one of the best known and most frequently collected of all sixteenth-century mapmakers, and today, hand-colored, copperplate-printed Abraham Ortelius maps continue to command avid interest. Abraham Ortelius is widely recognized as the inventor of the atlas and one of the most prominent geographers in history. ![]()
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