Theatrum orbis terrarumMap depicting North and South America, in an edition of Abraham Ortelius´s Theatrum orbis terrarum (1570; “Theatre of the World”) printed in 1588 by Christophe Plantin. The legend in the lower left reads: “Americae sive Novi Orbis nova descriptio” (“A new description of America, or the New World”). The Newberry Library, Ayer Fund, 1920 (A Britannica Publishing