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The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science

2y 5mon ago by mander.xyz/u/fossilesque in old_maps@mander.xyz from www.newscientist.com

Paywall. Free info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Mauro_map

And a 5000x5000 pixel scan of a copy: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/FraMauroDetailedMap.jpg

And the museum has a much higher res available here: https://mostre.museogalileo.it/framauro/en/https://mostre.museogalileo.it/framauro/en/interactive-exploration/explore.html

Oh it's "upside down". I couldn't orient what i was looking at until i saw the upside down boot of Italy