Strange world map, 430 years old!

in #world7 years ago

Experts have restored one of the largest known early maps of the world, and it's glorious, mythical creatures and all.

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The hand-drawn map was created 430 years ago by Urbano Monte. Centuries later, collector David Rumsey and his nephew have painstakingly scanned and digitally stitched together all 60 pages previously bound in an atlas, completing the map for the first time as it was originally intended.

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Created in 1587 in Milan, Italy, it shows the world in great detail, and was quite advanced for its day. The world as seen from above, looking down on the North Pole, was a perspective not commonly used by mapmakers at the time.

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See large map and more info Here: https://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2017/11/26/largest-early-world-map-monte-s-10-ft-planisphere-of-1587

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yes!! fascinating and very strange.. :D

The guy in the Antarctica segment is called Romano Imperatore. Would be interesting who that is...
Thanks for the Rabbit hole!

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nice photo!! :)

Pleas need new post!

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