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• EssayMaps That AgeA map can keep its title while its plate cracks, fades, is repaired, recut and corrected. Nine Ortelius impressions reveal age as an editorial history, not a date.
• MapBabylonian World MapThe Imago Mundi - earth as a disc ringed by the bitter river.
• CartographerAbraham OrteliusBrabantian cartographer and geographer whose Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) is regarded as the first modern atlas: a uniform, bound set of map sheets with a credited list of sources.
• EssayInvisible Maps of ReligionNine Christian maps from Madaba to Bünting show how a centre, an orientation or a chain of stations can organise lived space without measured distance.
• MapHereford Mappa MundiAn east-up, encyclopedic Christian world gathered around Jerusalem on a single monumental skin.
• CartographerMartin WaldseemüllerGerman cartographer whose 1507 world map was the first to apply the name "America" to the New World, honouring Amerigo Vespucci.