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Where several maps of one country were available, he chose the most modern and most reliable copy. Ortelius has combined in this work in a systematic manner all recent maps of the world and separate countries, of which he had heard during his long activity as trader and collector. This work is the “Theatrum orbis terrarum”, which appeared in 1570 it was the first great modern atlas, and contained seventy copper engravings on fifty-three double-folio pages. No copy has yet been found of Ortelius’s great map of Asia, but in his chief work, which assures him for all time a place of honor in the history of cartography, we find not only his own map of Asia on a smaller scale, but also a number of maps of other cartographers, who otherwise are completely unknown. Bernoulli, “Ein Karteninkunabelnband”, Basle, 1905, p.

As the only extant copy of this great map is that in the library of the University of Basle (cf. Five years before Mercator published his famous Carta Navigatoria (1569) appeared Ortelius’s great eight-leaved map of the world. Mean-while he did not confine himself entirely to trafficking in charts. This trading in maps was probably one of the chief reasons for his unusually extended trips to Germany, England, Italy, and particularly for his annual visits to the great fair at Leipzig. By purchasing as valuable maps as possible, mounting them on canvas, coloring, and reselling them, he managed to assist in supporting the family, as may be gleaned from a contemporary letter. When twenty years of age he joined a guild as a colorer of charts. The death of his father in 1535, who had been a wealthy merchant, seems to have placed the family in difficulties, for Ortelius began to trade or peddle geographical charts and maps while still a mere youth. His family came from Augsburg, wherefore Ortelius frequently referred to himself as “Belgo-Germanus”. JSTOR 1151390.Ortelius (OERTEL), ABRAHAM, cartographer, geographer, and archaeologist, b. "Norumbega and "Harmonia Mundi" in Sixteenth-Century Cartography". Reider T, Sherwin The Viking and The Red Man.Ancient Norumbega, or the voyages of Simon Ferdinando and John Walker to the Penobscot River, 1579-1580. American beginnings: Exploration, culture, and cartography in the land of Norumbega (University of Nebraska Press) Baker, Emerson W., Churchill, Edwin A., D'Abate, Richard S., Jones, Kristine L., Konrad, Victor A.

^ Acadia National Park - Norumbega Mountain Loop accessed 2018.01.25.The Discoveries of America to the year 1525. American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture, and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega. "Camden inn maintains grand old aspirations". ^ a b Schweitzer, Sarah (January 28, 2007).^ Andy Woodruff, Norumbega, New England’s lost city of riches and Vikings, accessed 2018.01.25.^ "Did Leif Erikson once live in Cambridge, Massachusetts?".Presently, the myth is commemorated by such place names as Norumbega Mountain (formerly Brown Mountain) in Acadia National Park. In honor of Horsford's generous donations to Wellesley College, a building named Norumbega Hall was dedicated in 1886 and celebrated in a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.

During the late 19th century, Eben Norton Horsford associated the name and legend of Norumbega with supposed Norse settlements on the Charles River, and built the Norumbega Tower at the confluence of Stony Brook and the Charles River in Weston, Massachusetts, where he claimed Fort Norumbega was located. In 1886, inventor Joseph Barker Stearns built a mansion named " Norumbega Castle", which still stands on US Route 1 in Camden, Maine, overlooking Penobscot Bay. The town of Bangor, Maine, commemorated the legend during the nineteenth century, naming their municipal hall "Norumbega Hall". It often appeared on subsequent European maps of North America, lying south of Acadia in what is now New England. In 1542, Jean Allefonsce reported that he had coasted south from Newfoundland and had discovered a great river. It may mean "quiet place between the rapids" or "quiet stretch of water". The word "Norumbega" was originally spelled Oranbega in Giovanni da Verrazzano's 1529 map of America, and the word is believed to derive from one of the Algonquian languages spoken in New England. It was alleged that the houses had pillars of gold and the inhabitants carried quarts of pearls on their heads. Norumbega, or Nurembega, is a legendary settlement in northeastern North America which was featured on many early maps from the 16th century until European colonization of the region. Mythical country in North America Part of Abraham Ortelius' atlas from 1570, showing "Norvmbega" among other somewhat mythical names for various areas as well as several phantom islands.