Via MapHist comes word of the publication of the second, revised
edition of Marcel van den Broecke’s Ortelius Atlas Maps: An
Illustrated Guide. “This very practical and informative manual
gives an extensive overview and a description of all the maps
that appeared in the famous first atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570 and all later editions.” With
his 1893 Map of the Square and Stationary Earth, Orlando
Ferguson made visual his emphatic claim that the earth was flat.
One hundred and eighteen years later, one of the last remaining
copies is being donated to the Library of Congress, which
inexplicably does not already own a copy of this dotty gem. Only
one other copy is known to exist. More (including a high-
resolution scan) at The History Blog. Via io9 and MapHist. The
Boston Globe points to Donna Seger’s blog entry in which she has
collected caricature maps from the early modern period. “The
shift from conceptual to more realistic cartography in the early
modern era is a very eviden