Some Methods for Indicating Cartographic Uncertainty, Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries by Chet Van Duzer

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Instruments of Community by Ad Leerintveld, Jeroen Vandommele

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Genealogies of Spanish Architectural Knowledge in Roman Print by Emily Monty

“…The plate reproduces the famous image realized in Madrid in 1587 for Juan de Herrera’s Estampas and is based on a plate published by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp in 1591. The article analyzes the album from the point of view of the Roman print of El Escorial and argues that the album works, through its structure, to introduce the building to the print-buying public in Spanish Rome.…”
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Novus Atlas in the Collection of Printing and Book Binding in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb - the Problem of Attribution and Dating of Geographical Maps by Anđelka Galić, Antonia Došen

“…Within the two volumes, alongside the lesser known names, there are the names of publishers, cartographers and map engravers such as Abraham Ortelius (1527 – 1598), Henricus Hondius (1597 – 1651), Pierre Duval (1619 – 1683), Frederick de Wit (1629 – 1706), Pierre Mortier (1661 – 1711) and others, which shifted not only the set attribution but also the dates of the maps’ creation to the period from the late 16th to the first half of the 18th century.…”
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Epitomes of Dacia: Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania in Early Modern English Travelogues by Monica Matei-Chesnoiu

“…I examine travelogues and geography texts describing these Eastern European territories written by Marco Polo (1579), Abraham Ortelius (1601; 1608), Nicolas de Nicolay (1585), Johannes Boemus (1611), Pierre d’Avity (1615), Francisco Guicciardini (1595), George Abbot (1599), Uberto Foglietta (1600), William Biddulph (1609), Richard Hakluyt (1599-1600), Fynes Moryson (1617), and Sir Henry Blount (1636), published in England in the period 1579-1636. …”
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El peregrino entre el itinerario y la cuadrícula: espacio abstracto y sujeto moderno en las «Soledades» de Luis de Góngora by Emilio Pedro Vivó Capdevila

“…Argumentaremos así que la Soledad reposa sobre las concepciones del espacio de Abraham Ortelius y la cosmografía culta mientras juega con los “itinerarios” típicos de la Edad Media, mostrando, sin embargo, una subjetividad radicalmente nueva propia de ese espacio abstracto: un “yo puntual”. …”
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Interpretation of the Kingdom of Valencia’s coastal defence system from the 16th to 18th centuries through historical cartography by Pablo Rodríguez-Navarro, Teresa Gil-Piqueras

“…At this time, the new cartographic discoveries and scientific breakthroughs favored the production of maps. In 1584, Abraham Ortelius published the first map of the Kingdom of Valencia, which included some of the watchtowers cited by Antonelli. …”
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<em>Illuc erant leones</em>: paleokomparatyvistinės idėjos apie Žemaitijos bei žemaičių vardą Vakarų Europoje by Pietro Umberto Dini

“…Erst später (vgl. das vielmals ausgegebene und übersetzte Werk Abraham Ortelius, <em>Teatri Orbis Terrarum, </em>1570) wurde sie gleichfalls in westeuropäi­schen Umlauf gesetzt. …”
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