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Article: Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and their Maps: Bio-Bibliographies of the Cartographers of Abraham Ortelius, 1570, Based on Leo Bagrow's 'A Ortelii Catalogus Cartographorum.'(Brief Article)
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- The Geographical Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
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Several leading cartographic historians have quailed at the prospect of updating Leo Bagrow's erudite commentary on the mapmakers consulted by Ortelius for his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first published in 1570. A broader range of cartographical thinking, and the discovery of many new maps over the last 60 years, have both necessitated a major revision to Bagrow's work since it was published as two supplements to Petermanns geographische Mitteilungen in 1928-30.
Two researchers, in 1991 and 1993, offered complementary books on essentially the same subject. That by Robert Karrow of the Newberry Library, Chicago, is a solid and scholarly work which examines the ...