Preface
| Leon Voet |
Abraham Ortelius and his world |
| Marcel van den Broecke |
Introduction to the life and works of Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598 |
| Peter van der Krogt |
The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: The first atlas? |
| Dirk Imhof |
The production of Ortelius atlases by Christopher Plantin |
| Guenther Schilder |
The wall maps by Abraham Ortelius |
| Markus Heinz & Cornelia Reiter |
Asiae Descriptio and the Judgment Day painting |
| Peter Meurer |
Ortelius as the father of historical cartography |
| Rodney Shirley |
The title pages to the Theatrum and Parergon |
| Rodney Shirley |
The world maps in the Theatrum |
| Wulf Bodenstein |
Ortelius' maps of Africa |
| Dennis Reinhartz |
The Americas revealed in the Theatrum |
| Arthur Kelly |
Maps of the British Isles, England and Wales and Ireland |
| Agustin Hernando |
The contribution of Ortelius' Theatrum to the geographical knowledge
of Spain |
| Peter Meurer |
Abraham Ortelius' concept and map of Germania |
| Henk A.M. van der Heijden |
Ortelius and the Netherlands |
| Dirk I. Blonk |
The map of Holland in the Theatrum |
| Marijke Spies |
Humanist conceptions of the far North in the works of Mercator and
Ortelius |
| Marcel van den Broecke and Deborah van den Broecke-Günzburger |
The wanderings of patriarch Abraham |
| Peter H. Meurer |
Synonymia-Thesaurus-Nomenclator. Ortelius dictionaries of ancient geographical
names |
| Iolo & Menai Roberts |
De Mona Druidum Insula |
| Klaus Schmidt-Ott |
The Itinerarium per Nonnullas Galliae Belgicae Partes by Abraham Ortelius
and Johannes Vivianus |
Appendices
| Peter van der Krogt |
The editions of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Epitome |
| Marcel van den Broecke |
The plates of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum |
| Peter Meurer |
The Catalogus Auctorum Tabularum Geographicarum |
| Peter van der Krogt |
Abraham Ortelius Bibliography Contributors |
| Index of Names |
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