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Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time

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The largest known world map of its time—made of 60 individual sheets—can finally be seen as the mapmaker intended. Urbano Monte’s enormous 1587 map is a unique vision of the world as he knew it.

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Thank you Tom, what an amazing piece of history.
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Great link and very interesting. Cheers for posting it........... :g38:

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must have been an exciting time of discovery for those who had the interest and the means..... (enjoyed reading through it)

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Very interesting, thank you Tom.
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