It was aimed at competing with another atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Ortelius, published eight years earlier in 1570.

[1] De Jode made plans for another enlarged edition, which was uncompleted at his death in 1591.

[1] In constructing his world map, Hemispherium Ab Æquinoctiali Linea, Ad Circulum Poli Antarctici, published in 1593, De Jode was strongly influenced by Guillaume Postel's 1581 polar planisphère, Polo aptata Nova Charta Universi.

[2] De Jode was probably the maker of a globe made in Antwerp that also owes much to the cosmographic ideas of Guillaume Postel.

Smiley was caught and arrested after a library staff member found his X-Acto knife on the floor.