The teenage Elizabeth Tanfield
made a translation, The mirror of the Worlde translated / Out of French into Englishe / by E. T., from the geographer Abraham Ortelius
.
This work was discovered and...
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Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
What she translated was the accounts of countries and continents from Ortelius
's Le Théatre du monde, or rather from L'Epitome du Théatre du monde, an atlas which interleaves its maps with pages...
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1570: The engraver Abraham Ortelius published the...
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1570
The engraver Abraham Ortelius
published the first world atlas based on scientific measurements, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; Gerhard Mercator
followed with his Atlas, 1585-1595, which gave the genre its current name.
Monmonier, Mark. “Measurements that made the world”. Guardian Weekly, Vol.
