Gerard and Cornelis de Jode

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Cornelis de Jode (Antwerp, 1568 – Bergen, 1600) was a South Netherlandish cartographer, engraver and printer. Cornelis was a son of Gerard de Jode. He had prepared himself for his task through study and distinguished himself as a 'plaetsnyder' and publisher. De Jode soon had success: the second edition of the world atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum ('Mirror of the countries of the world') by... Read more

Cornelis de Jode (Antwerp, 1568 – Bergen, 1600) was a South Netherlandish cartographer, engraver and printer. Cornelis was a son of Gerard de Jode.

He had prepared himself for his task through study and distinguished himself as a 'plaetsnyder' and publisher. De Jode soon had success: the second edition of the world atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum ('Mirror of the countries of the world') by his father Gerard, now renamed as Speculum Orbis Terrae ('Mirror of the world country'), improved and enlarged from 65 to 109 cards, appeared in 1593 and sold much better than the first. In 1595 Cornelis joined the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke of artisans.

De Jode also wrote De Quadrante Geometrico Libellus (1594), 'Book about the geometric quadrant'. According to his epitaph, Cornelis was one of the rather rare cartographers who had traveled extensively: to Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Italy and Spain.

An untimely death ended his promising career. The copper plates came into the possession of the publisher J.B. Vrients who also bought Ortelius' plates. However, no similar atlas editions by Vrients are known, only a reissue of the Pool map in 1618.

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