{"id":1785628,"date":"2018-05-20T16:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T20:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785628"},"modified":"2018-05-20T16:43:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T20:43:21","slug":"abraham-ortelius-as-google-doodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/05\/abraham-ortelius-as-google-doodle\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Ortelius as Google Doodle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On this day in 1570, says Google, Abraham Ortelius<\/a>\u00a0published the first modern atlas, the\u00a0Theatrum Orbis Terrarum<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0As a result he’s the subject of one of today’s Google Doodles<\/a>. Google, of course, has some small interest in maps. [Nathaniel Kelso<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On this day in 1570, says Google, Abraham Ortelius\u00a0published the first modern atlas, the\u00a0Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.\u00a0As a result he’s the subject of one of today’s Google Doodles. Google, of course, has some small interest in… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[605,462,312,322],"class_list":["post-1785628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-gif","tag-google","tag-history-of-cartography","tag-ortelius","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1026,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/the-correspondence-of-abraham-ortelius\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785628,"position":0},"title":"The Correspondence of Abraham Ortelius","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 February 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"A catalogue of the correspondence of Abraham Ortelius (1527\u20131598), the\u00a0Flemish cartographer responsible for the first modern atlas, the\u00a0Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, is now available.\u00a0Ortelius' letters are scattered about the world in various\u00a0collections; the catalogue is\u00a0just that, a catalogue, not a digital archive\u2014where digital copies do exist there are links to them,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"typus-orbis-terrarum","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/typus-orbis-terrarum-1024x697.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/typus-orbis-terrarum-1024x697.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/typus-orbis-terrarum-1024x697.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/typus-orbis-terrarum-1024x697.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1806312,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/ortelius-online-at-the-national-library-of-the-netherlands\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785628,"position":1},"title":"Ortelius Online at the National Library of the Netherlands","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 March 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"The National Library of the Netherlands has an online version of Ortelius\u2019s 16th-century atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. 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