Identity elements
Reference code
I0004
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumque Insularum Circumiacientium delineatio. - ca. 1579
Date(s)
- ca. 1579 (Creation)
Extent
hand colored copper print.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Ortelius was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas. He was the first to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present position. The suggestion of the Florida Keys was uncommon for these period. A notable error is that the Tropic of Cancer is mislabelled as the Tropic of Capricorn.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Shows coast at Culiacán (Mexico), the southern tip of Florida, and the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas).