5/10/2023 0 Comments Ortelius barabaria et3 The period is also a milestone for coastal cartography, since apparently some maps of that century show for the first time bathymetrics-depth lines-along coasts and in inlets (the first mapmaker to do so was apparently Pourbus), and an ocean dedicated map (Pacific) was placed on the market (drawn by Ortelius).Īt one time Rupelmonde, a small city and port on the confluence of the Rupel and Scheldt rivers 4 ( Figure 1), held a nonnegligible role in the Land of Waes (now Waas), an area in the county of Flanders but dependent on the sovereignty of the Holy Roman Emperor (this dependency was shown on its coat of arms by an eagle). 1, 2 The third one, Peter Pourbus, worked mainly in Bruges, where he had moved from Gouda, in the then recently independent northern Lowlands (United Provinces). Two of them, Mercator and Ortelius, appear on the logo of the geographical society founded in the 19th century, the Société Royale de Géographie d'Anvers, named after the city where they found their vocation and reached their fame. Three southern Netherlands individuals contributed to the development of methodology, cartography sensu largo, navigation, oceanography, and even geophysics. Maps were also a topic of major concern in England, where they were widely used by ship captains. The 16th century is among the Renaissance's most productive periods of mapmaking, with the Netherlands occupying a predominant position, at least in Western Europe ( Ristow, 1962). In the northern Lowlands, mapmaking had already made great steps forward in earlier times. Earlier in the same century a painter of renown, Peter Pourbus, in the service of the Sire of Moerbeke and of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, engaged in mapmaking using an approach worthy of modern cartographers. The Mercator projection proved to be a priceless gift to ship captains. His studies at the famed university of Louvain (Leuven-Lovanium) were financed by a clerical relative, and his work was buttressed by that of Ortelius, his associate. Although he was born in a small Flandrian town, his name remains associated with Antwerp. Not because he is one of the mapmakers of the 16th century, but because he contributed perhaps most significantly to the progress of navigation. The 500th anniversary of Mercator's birth ought to be celebrated as a milestone in the history of cartography and navigation. Lowlands sixteenth century cartography: Mercator's birth pentecentennial.
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