Background
He was the son of Gerard de Jode, also a cartographer. When his father died in 1591, Cornelis de Jode took over the work on his father"s uncompleted altas, which he eventually published in 1593 as Speculum Orbis Terrae.
He was the son of Gerard de Jode, also a cartographer. When his father died in 1591, Cornelis de Jode took over the work on his father"s uncompleted altas, which he eventually published in 1593 as Speculum Orbis Terrae.
Cornelis studied science at Academy of Douai.
Despite that contemporary scholars consider many of de Jode"s maps to be copies of both Portuguese and Spanish cartographers in detail and style of atlas of the time Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Ortelius, de Jode"s atlas never sold well due to his plagiarize. After his death, the engraving plates were sold to J. B. Vrients (who also owned the Ortelius plates), and the complete work was not published again.