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.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... 76714470=1
Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
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Re: Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
Thank you Tom, what an amazing piece of history.
I used to have an issue regarding having an inferiority complex, I no longer have an issue with being inferior.
Re: Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
Great link and very interesting. Cheers for posting it...........
Re: Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
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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Re: Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
Very interesting, thank you Tom.
This is a link to my publicly available finds on the PAS Database http://finds.org.uk/database/search/res ... 1B63D0139E