GoogleToday's Google Doodle celebrates the publication of the world's first atlas in 1570. It was the work of cartographer Abraham Ortelius, who collected the maps, added his own notes, and had the book printed from specially-engraved copper plates. The 53 maps in the atlas represented everything western Europeans in 1570 knew about the shape of the world. But Ortelius' maps do depict Terra Australis, a hypothetical southern continent located about where Antarctica turned out to be. A 1573 edition is available online from the State Library of New South Wales, Australia (which isn't in the atlas).

Source: Forbes May 20, 2018 04:52 UTC