Corneille Wytfliet
Illustration — Map of Cuba and Jamaica from Wytfliet's Descriptionis Ptolemaicæ augmentum (1597) • Illustration — Wytfliet's map of New Spain Cornelius Wytfliet or Cornelis van Wytfliet (died around 1597) was a geographer from Leuven in the Habsburg Netherlands, best known for producing the first atlas of the Americas.
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Corneille Wytfliet
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- Born
- 1501
- Died
- 1597
- Occupation
- cartographer · lawyer · geographer
- Education
- Old University of Leuven
- Languages
- Latin
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Illustration — Map of Cuba and Jamaica from Wytfliet's Descriptionis Ptolemaicæ augmentum (1597) • Illustration — Wytfliet's map of New Spain Cornelius Wytfliet or Cornelis van Wytfliet (died around 1597) was a geographer from Leuven in the Habsburg Netherlands, best known for producing the first atlas of the Americas.
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Cornelius was the son of Catherine Huybrechts and her husband, Gregorius Wytfliet, who was advocate fiscal of Leuven University from 1557 to 1594. After graduating Licentiate in Laws from the University of Leuven, Wytfliet moved to Brussels and became secretary to the Council of Brabant. He died in or shortly after 1597, when his Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum (a work adding new discoveries to Ptolemy's description of the world) was published.
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• Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum (Leuven, Joannes Bogardus, 1597) • Reissued Leuven, Gerard Rivius, 1598 – On Google Books • Translated into French as Histoire universelle des Indes occidentales (Douai, François Fabri, 1607) – On Google Books
Terra Australis in Karte von Cornelius Wytfliet, 1597
Cornelius Wytfliet
Map of the Yucatán Peninsula and Honduras (Map Collection of Manuel María de Peralta)
Cornelius van Wytfliet · Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas
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1501
Corneille Wytfliet was born in 1501.
1597
Corneille Wytfliet died in 1597.
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- 1.José de Acosta: Das Gold des Kondors. Berichte aus der Neuen Welt 1590 und Atlas zur Geschichte ihrer Entdeckung. Herausgegeben und übertragen von Rudolf Kroboth und Peter H. Meurer, Edition Erdmann in K. Thienemanns Verlag, Stuttgart u. a. 1991, ISBN 3-522-60750-3 (Originalausgabe: America, Oder wie mans zu Teutsch nennet Die Neuwe Welt/ oder West India. Von Herrn Josepho De Acosta in Sieben Büchern/ eins theils in Lateinischer/ und eins theils in Hispanischer Sprach/ Beschrieben. Sutorius, Ursel 1605. Nach dem Exemplar der Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin S. 355).
- 2.Wytfielt in historischer Literatur (1755)
- 3.Koeman, Cornelis. Atlantes neerlandici. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1967–1985. Vol. I, Wyt 1 A.
- 4.José de Acosta: Das Gold des Kondors. Berichte aus der Neuen Welt 1590 und Atlas zur Geschichte ihrer Entdeckung. Herausgegeben und übertragen von Rudolf Kroboth und Peter H. Meurer, Edition Erdmann in K. Thienemanns Verlag, Stuttgart u. a. 1991, ISBN 3-522-60750-3 (Originalausgabe: America, Oder wie mans zu Teutsch nennet Die Neuwe Welt/ oder West India. Von Herrn Josepho De Acosta in Sieben Büchern/ eins theils in Lateinischer/ und eins theils in Hispanischer Sprach/ Beschrieben. Sutorius, Ursel 1605. Nach dem Exemplar der Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin S. 356.)
- 5.Schwedische Zeitung berichtet vom Diebstahl eines der letzten acht originalen Atlanten Wytfielts: Rare stolen Swedish Wytfliet atlas, missing a decade, recovered at New York City gallery
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