Hiberniae Britannicae
This Abraham Ortelius map, Hiberniae, Britannicae Insvlae Nova Descripto, is an early map of Ireland published in 1598. It was first published in 1573 and is compiled from Gerardus Mercator's 1564 map depicting the British Isles, which greatly improved the accuracy and outdoing his previous representations. The map was part of Ortelius’s landmark 1598 atlas. Do you know who is considered the inventor of the modern atlas? That would be no other than Abraham Ortelius himself. Ortelius was a Flemish engraver and a prominent mapmaker, perhaps the most popular and frequently collected of the mapmakers of his time. His atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theater of the world) was published in Antwerp in 1570 and presented the world in a way that showed the