''Speculum Orbis Terrae'' ("Mirror of the World") was an atlas published by

Cornelis de Jode Cornelis de Jode (1568 – 17 October 1600) was a cartographer, engraver and publisher from Antwerp. He was the son of Gerard de Jode, also a cartographer. Cornelis studied science at Academy of Douai (info on birth and death dates and pl ...

in Antwerp in 1593. The atlas was largely a continuation of unfinished works of his father,

Gerard de Jode Gerard de Jode (also known as Petrus de Jode; – 5 February 1591) was a Netherlandish cartographer, engraver, and publisher who lived and worked in Antwerp. In 1547, De Jode was admitted to the Guild of St. Luke, and began his work as a ...

, who died in 1591. Contemporary scholars consider many of de Jode's maps to be superior, both in detail and style, to those of the competing atlas of the time, ''

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'' (, "Theatre of the Orb of the World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas. Written by Abraham Ortelius, strongly encouraged by Gillis Hooftman and originally printed on 20 May 1570 in Antwerp, it consist ...

'', by

Ortelius Abraham Ortelius (; also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels; 4 or 14 April 152728 June 1598) was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer, conventionally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ...

. However, de Jode's atlas never sold well. After de Jode's death in 1600, the engraving plates were sold to J. B. Vrients (who also owned the Ortelius plates), and the complete work was not published again.

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Cornelis de Jode 1593 Totius Orbis Cogniti Universalis Descriptio

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Specvlvm orbis terrae'' (Antwerpen, 1593)
- hand coloured second edition of the atlas from collection of the National Museum in Warsaw (Poland); Atlases 1593 books Cartography in the Dutch Republic {{ref-book-stub