FYI. Hoping to see something like this happen in India. Books have been released in to the public domain but this is rather interesting. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Hay (Husky)" huskyr@gmail.com Date: 17-Sep-2014 4:02 pm Subject: Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1571) now available on Commons

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Hi everyone, i'm pleased to announce that i've just completed an upload of high resolution scans of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius, the first 'modern' atlas of the world.

The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, (i'm a Wikipedian-in-Residence there) acquired an edition of his atlas last year. This edition is in very good condition, with excellent hand-colouring of all the cards.

The complete atlas is available here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atlas_Ortelius_1571

Kind regards, -- Hay Kranen _______________________________________________