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OBIS TERRAE COMPENDIOSA Petrus Plancius - Jan Baptist Vrients (Dutch 1552-1612) Richard B Arkway,Inc.
Petrus Plancius (Pieter Platevoet, "Peter Flatfoot") (1552-1622) was born in Flanders. He was a theologian and minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1585 he fled to Amsterdam to escape religious persecution. There he became interested in navigation and cartography, and became cartographer to the Dutch East India Company. In this capacity he produced over 100 individual maps and charts. Although some would characterize him as "a useful amateur," many see him as the most important personality after Mercator at the close of the sixteenth century. His work is not as well known as that of his contemporaries because he did not publish an atlas.
Vrients was the map engraver and publisher in Antwerp who, after the death of Ortelius in 1598, acquired the publication rights of the Theatrum. Between 1601 and 1612 he issued a number of editions which included some of his own maps and he was responsible for printing the maps for the English edition in 1606. He also published a number of important individual maps and a small atlas of the Netherlands
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