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His family moved to Ghent when Jodocus was still very young and by the age of eight he had taken up drawing and engraving. In , because of the war with Spain and to escape religious persecution, Jodocus fled to London. He trained with the English cartographers Richard Hakluyt and Edward Wright, and in he returned to Amsterdam and established a business specializing in map and globe making.

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In Jodocus bought the plates of Mercator's Atlas , which had fallen behind in competition with Ortelius' popular atlas. He combined Mercator's original maps with about 40 of his own more up-to-date maps and from published enlarged editions of the Atlas, still under Mercator's name but with his own name as publisher. In he published Vera totius expeditionis nauticae Descriptio D.

Decembris Anno , terrarum orbis Ambitum Circumnavigans The dates mark the beginning and end of Drake's voyage. Lxxxvii, in turn based on Gerard Mercator's map of South America is drawn more accurately than on the Mercator map, but the continent of Australia is still misunderstood. Sir Frances Drake's course around the earth, traced in red, is not completely accurate.

The route South from England swings too far west northwest of Africa. Drake made a number of stops on both the east and west coasts of South America which are not marked. And the route through the East Indies is incorrect. However, Nova Albion on the coast of California is marked. The original also shows the course of Thomas Cavendish a few years later —