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See also:ORTELIUS (ORTELS, WORTELS), See also:ABRAHAM , next to See also:Mercator the greatest geographer of his See also:age, was See also:born at See also:Antwerp on the 14th of See also:April 1527, and died in the same See also:city on the 4th of See also:July 1598. He was of See also:German origin, his See also:family coming from See also:Augsburg. He travelled extensively in western See also:Europe, especially in the See also:Netherlands; See also:south and See also:west See also:Germany (e.g. 156o, 1575, 1578); See also:France (1559-156o, &c.); See also:England and See also:Ireland
(1577), and See also:Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 1550 and 1558). Beginning as a See also:map-engraver (in 1547 he enters the Antwerp gild of St See also:Luke as afsetter See also:van Karten), his See also:early career is that of a business See also:man, and most of his journeys before I 56o are for commercial purposes (such as his yearly visits to the See also:Frankfort See also:fair). In 156o, however, when travelling with See also:Gerhard Kremer (Mercator) to See also:Trier, See also:Lorraine and See also:Poitiers, he seems. to have been attracted, largely by Mercator's See also:influence, towards the career of a scientific geographer; in particular he now devoted himself, at his friend's See also:suggestion, to the compilation of that See also:atlas or See also:Theatre of the See also:World by which he became famous. In 1564 he completed a mappemonde, which afterwards appeared in the Theatrum. He also published a map of See also:Egypt in 1565 a See also:plan of Britenburg See also:Castle on the See also:coast of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, and perhaps a map of See also:Asia, before the See also:appearance of his See also:great See also:work. In 1570 (May 20) was issued, by Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp, Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the " first See also:modern atlas " (of 53 maps). Three Latin See also:editions of this (besides a Flemish, a See also:French and a German) appeared before the end of 1572; twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius' See also:death in 1598; and several others were published subsequently, for the See also:vogue continued till about 1612. Most of the maps were admittedly reproductions (a See also:list of 87 authors is given by Ortelius himself), and many discrepancies of delineation or nomenclature occur. Errors, of course, abound, both in See also:general conceptions and in detail; thus South See also:America is very faulty in outline, and in See also:Scotland the See also:Grampians See also:lie between the Forth and the See also:Clyde; but, taken as a whole, this atlas with its accompanying See also:text was a See also:monument of rare erudition and See also:industry. Its immediate precursor and prototype was a collection of See also:thirty-eight maps of See also:European lands, and of Asia, See also:Africa, Tartary and Egypt, gathered together by the See also:wealth and enterprise, and through the agents, of Ortelius' friend and See also:patron, Gilles Hooftman, See also:lord of Cleydael and Aertselaer: most of these were printed in See also:Rome, eight or nine only in See also:Belgium. In 1573 Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the See also:title of Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. By this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he had formed a See also:fine collection of coins, medals and antiques, and this produced (also in 1573, published by Philippe See also:Galle of Antwerp) his Deorum dearumque capita . . . ex Museo Ortelii (reprinted in See also:Gronovius, Thes. Gr. See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
Ant. vol. vii.). In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Spain, See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II., on the recommendation of See also:Arius Montanus; who vouched for his orthodoxy (his family, as early as 1535, had fallen under suspicion of See also:Protestant-ism). In 1578 he laid the basis of a See also:critical treatment of See also:ancient See also:geography by his Synonymia geographica (issued by the See also:Plantin See also:press at Antwerp and republished as See also:Thesaurus geographicus in 1596). In 1584 he brought out his Nomenclator Ptolemaicus, his Parergon (a See also:series of maps illustrating ancient See also:history, sacred and See also:secular), and his See also:Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliae Belgicae partes (published at the Plantin press, and reprinted in Hegenitius, Itin. Frisio-See also:Holl.), a See also:record of a See also:journey in Belgium and the Rhineland made in 1575. Among his last See also:works were an edition of See also:Caesar (C. I. Caesaris omnia quae extant, See also:Leiden, Raphelingen, 1593), and the Aurei saeculi imago, sive Germanorum veterum vita (Philippe Galle, Antwerp, 1596). He also aided See also:Welser in his edition of the Peutinger Table in 1598. In 1596 he received a presentation from Antwerp city, similar to that afterwards bestowed on See also:Rubens; his death and See also:burial (in St See also:Michael's See also:Abbey See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church) in 1598 were marked by public See also:mourning.
See See also:Emmanuel van Meteren, Historia Belgica (See also:Amsterdam, 1670) ; General Wauwermans, Histoire de l'ecole cartographique beige et anversoise (Antwerp, 1895), and See also:article " Ortelius " in Biographie nationale (Belgian), vol. xvi. (See also:Brussels, 1901); J. H. Hessels, Abrahami Ortelii epistulae (See also:Cambridge, England, 1887); Max Rooses, Ortelius et Plantin (188o) ; Genard, " Genealogie d'Ortelius," in the Bulletin de la See also:Soc. See also:roy. de Geog. d'Anvers (188o and 1881). (C. R.
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