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Γιοντόκους Χόντιους (1563 - 1612) |
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Jodocus Hondius (1563 -
1612) |
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Jodocus Hondius (14th
October 1563 - 12th February 1612) was a Dutch Flemish
cartographer, engraver, and publisher. Hondius is most
famous for reviving the primacy of the work of Gerard
Mercator, through the publication of his Atlas, and the
smaller Atlas Minor, in the early seventeenth century,
at a time when cartography was largely dominated by
Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The Mercator-Hondius
Atlas was composed of maps pulled from plates Hondius
had purchased from Mercator's grandson, as well as
thirty-six new plates Hondius commissioned, and in many
cases engraved, himself. He is also believed to have
been the chief engraver of the plates for John Speed's
Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. Following his
death, he was succeeded by his sons, Jodocus the Younger
and Henricus, as well as his son in law Jan Jansson. |
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