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The Gardens of Antwerp

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This is the city of Antwerp, circa 1572.  It was one of the most cosmopolitan, creative, commercial cities of the 16th century, and home of some of the era’s most impressive engravers and printers. I found this particular map in a charming book called Imagined Corners: exploring the world’s first atlas. It offers a treatment of the political, social, economic, religious, intellectual and cultural trends that gave rise to this new format - a unified, portable, bound collection of maps of the entire known world. This “atlas” (the term would not be coined til a few years later by Mercator) was called Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theater of the Countries of the World), created by Abraham Ortel, and it was a runaway best-seller. (Yes, now you know, I am one of those folks who loves maps, especially old maps, and… read more

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your meizitang botanical slimming day they are able to eat apples, can’t stay hydrated, not yogurt, not eat anything! Eat apples. Eating apples cleaned, after which gradually a little population of the small stutter.

Posted by ana on 02/03/12 at 03:22 AM

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