More than 400 years ago, it was on May 20, 1570 when the world's first modern atlas titled "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (Theatre of the world) was published. Today's Google Doodle remembers the man who created the atlas - Abraham Ortelius. An atlas is an aggregation of many maps and the one created by Ortelius, born in Antwerp, Belgium, on April 4 1527, recorded the first evidence of someone imagining the phenomenon of continental drift - the theory that suggests the continents, as we know them today, were joined together before drifting apart to their present day positions. His atlas brought geographical maps together, gathering them all in the same format. The atlas that had 53 maps in its first edition was all the more significant in 16th century when world maps helped in showing discoveries, as well as communicating the presumed shape of the world. The last edition of the atlas with 167 maps was published in 1622. Paying tribute to Ortelius in an animated doo
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