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...nown as '''Petrus de Jode'''; {{circa|1511}}&nbsp;– 5 February 1591) was a Netherlandish [[cartographer]], [[engraver]], and [[publisher]] who lived and worked in [ ...aris, HES Publishers and A.G. Nizet, 1987, ''HES Studies in the History of Cartography and Scientific Instruments,'' Vol.&nbsp;3, pp.&nbsp;337–343, 348.</ref> ...

This painting is one of a closely related group painted in the early to mid-1660s as the artist was not using linear perspective and geometric o [[Category:Cartography in the Dutch Republic]] ...

...form size, intended to be published in a book, thus representing the first modern atlas, was ''De Summa totius Orbis'' (1524–26) by the 16th-century Italian ...ately 1570s–1670s).{{#tag:ref|Sometimes known as the [[Golden Age of Dutch cartography]].|group=note}} ...

[[Category:Cartography in the Dutch Republic]] [[Category:Early modern Netherlandish cartography]] ...

...significantly helped lay the foundations for [[Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography|the school's golden age]] (approximately 1570s–1670s). [[Category:Early modern Netherlandish cartography]] ...

|occupation = [[Cartographer]], [[Atlas (cartography)|atlas]] maker, [[publisher]] ...[[Early modern Netherlandish cartography|Netherlandish or Dutch school of cartography]] during its golden age in the 16th and 17th centuries. ...

...e of the Camera Obscura |date=2005 |last1=Steadman |first1=Philip |journal=Early Science and Medicine |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=287–314 }}</ref> Both paint [[Category:Cartography in the Dutch Republic]] ...

| fields = {{hlist|Astronomy|cartography|theology}} | known_for = [[Netherlandish cartography]] ...

...n as the [[Golden Age of Dutch cartography|Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish cartography]].|group=note}} * R. Shirley, ''The mapping of the world. Early printed world maps, 1472-1700.'' London 1983 {{in lang|en}} ...

[[Category:Dutch celestial cartography in the Age of Discovery]] [[Category:Early modern Netherlandish cartography]] ...

...lace in around the 16th century in the [[Low Countries]] (corresponding to modern-day [[Belgium]], the [[Netherlands]] and [[French Flanders]]). ...science, the [[Anatomy|anatomist]] [[Andreas Vesalius]] led the way; in [[cartography]], [[Gerardus Mercator]]'s map assisted explorers and navigators. In art, [ ...

| field = [[Cartography]] ...y]] (c. 1570s–1670s), he helped establish [[Amsterdam]] as the center of [[cartography]] in Europe in [[Dutch Golden Age|the 17th century]]. ...

| occupation = [[Geographer]], [[Cartography|cartographer]] | known_for = Creator of the first [[List of atlases|modern atlas]]; proposing the idea of [[continental drift]] ...

...ctivities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times|date=1981|publisher=Published for the Botanical Research Institute by ...Town]] is also named after him, as well as the [[Simonsberg]] mountain. An early ship of the [[South African Navy]], {{SAS|Simon van der Stel}} was also nam ...

{{See also|Early modern Netherlandish cartography}} ...ded European to sight the eastern coast of Australia near [[Point Hicks]], modern [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]]. He sailed north along the coast as far as [[ ...

...late 16th century and is now one of the [[IAU designated constellations|88 modern constellations]]. Its name refers to the [[mahi-mahi]] (''Coryphaena hippur {{See also|Early modern Netherlandish cartography}} ...

...pe, in the beginning of the 15th century, marked the rebirth of scientific cartography, after more than a millennium of stagnation.]] ...g and using [[map]]s. Combining [[science]], [[aesthetics]] and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality (or an imagined reality) can be modeled ...

...he [[greatness|greatest]] achievements were made. The term originated from early [[ancient Greece|Greek]] and [[ancient Rome|Roman]] poets, who used it to r ...hristian [[Six Ages of the World]] based on the biblical chronology in the early [[Middle Ages]].<ref name="autogenerated1">{{emc1|Graeme Dunphy|Six Ages of ...

...l drift''' is a highly supported [[scientific theory]], originating in the early 20th century, that [[Earth]]'s [[continent]]s move or drift relative to eac ...d" was first put forward by [[Abraham Ortelius]] in 1596. A pioneer of the modern view of mobilism was the Austrian geologist [[Otto Ampferer]].<ref>Kalliope ...

==Early career== ...Pegu''], was prepared by [[Petrus Plancius]].<ref>Leo Bagrow, ''History of Cartography,'' revised and enlarged by R. A. Skelton, London, Watts, 1964, p. 265. [htt ...