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As Jesuit missionaries spread further across the globe, the order's founder wanted to ensure that its members remained connected. The result of this was an unparalleled network of knowledge which superseded religious tensions.
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Today we can hardly imagine the world without Google Maps. But this was the reality in past centuries. Orientation came with the first modern atlas by
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Ortelius was a wealthy businessman and paid for the publication of his Theatrum out of his own pocket, but he was not a printer and had to employ others to print it for him. Abraham Ortelius by Peter Paul Rubens , Museum Plantin-Moretus via Wikimedia Commons A man who printed, not the first 1570 editions, but the important expanded 1579 Latin edition, with its bibliography ( Catalogus Auctorum), index ( Index Tabularum), the maps with text on the back, followed by a register of place names in ancient times ( Nomenclator), and who also played a major role in marketin...