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Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:26 am
by tomredmayne
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
Re: Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 10:13 am
by Old Git John
Thank you Tom, what an amazing piece of history.
Re: Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:19 pm
by Euan
Great link and very interesting. Cheers for posting it...........
Re: Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 4:39 pm
by Rich-t
must have been an exciting time of discovery for those who had the interest and the means..... (enjoyed reading through it)
Re: Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:06 pm
by meandmydreams
Very interesting, thank you Tom.