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🗺️ **A Hand-coloured Atlas**
"_Ortelius’s Theatrum orbis terrarum is generally considered to be the first modern atlas. Although Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was himself a cartographer, the 70 maps of the first edition had been created by others, as were the many additional maps of later editions._"
🔗 https://stjohnscollegelibraryoxford.org/2025/08/25/the-first-modern-atlas-2/.
