Anonymous ID: 0bcae3 Dec. 31, 2020, 2:04 a.m. No.12249658   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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I grabbed it from an Australia thread on www/stolenhistory.org The site has been memory holed now.

 

1587 Urbano Monte's World Map

A 60 sheet world map was made in 1587 by Urbano Monte. It ended up being approximately nine feet by nine feet when fully assembled. The map was obtained by the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Libraries. The Map Center scanned all 60 sheets, and digitally put them together. When assembled, this map presents a model of the Flat Earth. Of course immediately after the map was stitched together, the flatness was explained with Urbano Monte's desire to "show the entire earth as close as possible to a three-dimensional sphere using a two-dimensional surface". Nevertheless, the map shows what it shows. It portrays the Earth as it would be seen looking directly down on the North Pole from space, a perspective not commonly used by mapmakers until the 20th century.

 

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And besides an obvious reference to the shape of the Earth, this wonderful masterpiece of the geographical knowledge surprises us with multiple lands surrounding he circle of the world. I can see this map being a treasure trove of the so-called "Flat Earthers." A couple of the versions of the Flat Earth are below. It also represents what we know as the Antarctic Continent in a way of a circular land mass surrounding the planet circle.