World?s Largest 16th-Century Map Digitally Re-Assembled at Stanford University
Stanford University experts digitally assembled what is considered the largest world map produced in the 16th-century. The representation of the world of 1587 by the Milanese cartographer Urbano Monte was divided into 60 pages and published in atlas form, but with clear instructions on how to reassemble it.
The Urbano Monte World map reconstructed by Stanford University. Image via David Raumsey Map Collection, Stanford University
Stanford University experts digitally assembled what is considered the largest world map produced in the 16th-century. The representation of the world of 1587 by the Milanese cartographer Urbano Monte was divided into 60 pages and published in atlas form, but with clear instructions on how to reassemble it. David Rumsey, director of the university's historical map collection, acquired the map from a historian in 2017. The publication has only one other handwritten copy in the world and has never been assembled in map form.Unlike the Mercator projection, often used in world maps to preserve the shape of the continents, Mount's projection departs from the North Pole and, although it distorts the regions closest to the South Pole, fairly conserves the relation of the land masses to the oceans.
Map detail: Southern Europe and North Africa. Image via David Raumsey Map Collection, Stanford University
The scanned pages form a map of more than three square meters and are available online, as well a...
The Urbano Monte World map reconstructed by Stanford University. Image via David Raumsey Map Collection, Stanford University
Stanford University experts digitally assembled what is considered the largest world map produced in the 16th-century. The representation of the world of 1587 by the Milanese cartographer Urbano Monte was divided into 60 pages and published in atlas form, but with clear instructions on how to reassemble it. David Rumsey, director of the university's historical map collection, acquired the map from a historian in 2017. The publication has only one other handwritten copy in the world and has never been assembled in map form.Unlike the Mercator projection, often used in world maps to preserve the shape of the continents, Mount's projection departs from the North Pole and, although it distorts the regions closest to the South Pole, fairly conserves the relation of the land masses to the oceans.
Map detail: Southern Europe and North Africa. Image via David Raumsey Map Collection, Stanford University
The scanned pages form a map of more than three square meters and are available online, as well a...
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