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The Most Wonderful Map in the World: Urbano Monte's Planisphere of 1587
- paganel 8y agoFor those that are into maps and for one reason or another haven’t learned about it yet I highly recommend the Mapire.eu website, which is basically comprised of old Habsburg and Austrian-Hungarian maps. This late 1700s Habsburg map [1] of almost half of Europe is a thing a beauty once you zoom into the details. [1] https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-18century-firstsurvey/?layers=osm%2C163%2C165&bbox=524663.7621494494%2C4628262.667727999%2C3655524.440710269%2C7563444.553878767 https://mapire.eu/en/map/europe-18century-firstsurvey/?layer...
- MayeulC 8y agoI initially thought the map was the one also available in Marble maps, the KDE project. However, it turned out to be the behaim globe. This would probably make a worthy addition.
- hhyndman 8y agoI downloaded a very high-resolution version of this map and created a 1m x 1m "poster" in my office. Accompanied with an illuminated magnifying glass, I often take a nice break from the computer monitor to examine the odd details Monte provides in his pictures.
- fosco 8y agoany case this high-res is available?
- carlob 8y agoIt's linked in the article https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~303661~90074314:Composite--Tavola-1-60---Map-of-the;JSESSIONID=a7feac82-4865-4483-bf66-104b58836234?qvq=q%3Apub_list_no%3D%2210130.000%22%3Bsort%3APub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No%3Blc%3ARUMSEY~8~1&sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&mi=0&trs=94 https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3... I also had it printed, but as a 170x170 cm tablecloth :)
- KevanM 8y agoThis is ripe for a illustrator to touch up and apply to a 3D model.
- mbroncano 8y ago“Among other things, this map really demonstrates the degree to which the Spanish state dominated the world in the 1580s.” It’s worth mentioning it was the crown, and not the state, the actual ruler.
- mvexel 8y agoI had a chance to visit David Rumsey and his map collection (which this map is a part of) at his home in 2013. The breadth of that collection and this man's dedication to maps is fantastic. This is a picture of his 2013 digitizing setup: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rhodes/9066129105 https://www.flickr.com/photos/rhodes/9066129105 which he built in what was basically his garage. I don't remember much technical detail about it. I believe (part of?) the collection has since moved to Stanford. The collection's web site is a great resource and fun to explore for anyone interested in maps. There's even a link to view part of the collection in Second Life.
- sb057 8y agoMy favorite map in his collection is the 1838 "Atlas von Central Europa", a 1:500,000(!) scale map of the entirety of northwestern Europe. [1] https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~295714~90066389:Composite--Atlas-von-Central-Europa?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=w4s:/where%2FEurope;q:Europe;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=0&trs=1820 https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2...
- marton78 8y agoIf it's a map of northwestern Europe, why do they call it "central"?
- JetSpiegel 8y agoThe title is in a Germanic language, it is centered on their home.
- gravy 8y agoThis is by far one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Not only because it's so detailed, but because we still have it 400 years later in such pristine condition. On that vein, as a 25-year-old it's so incredibly hard to imagine that this was made just under 20 of my lifetimes ago.
- asimpletune 8y ago> There's even an interactive version of the map available to explore via Google Earth. Does anyone have a link to this?
- tantalor 8y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCiJ6BpN30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCiJ6BpN30
- abhinai 8y agoFascinating! Would it be too much to hope that some day Stanford university would make a hi-res version of this map available on the internet? I would absolutely love to study it in detail!
- elliotec 8y agohttps://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~303661~90074314:Composite--Tavola-1-60---Map-of-the;JSESSIONID=a7feac82-4865-4483-bf66-104b58836234?qvq=q%3Apub_list_no%3D%2210130.000%22%3Bsort%3APub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No%3Blc%3ARUMSEY~8~1&sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&mi=0&trs=94 https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3...
- lugg 8y agoSurprisingly the mobile zoom in works ok. Lots of amazing finds in there.
- systemadmin 8y agoThis is a classic example of a 'flat earth map' with a central north pole that lies under a central star Polaris. Notice the clever attempts to spherise the projection by calling it a planisphere etc. Earth is a plane, not a planet. The sooner people can learn this the better, before the internet has become sanatised of such truths and our critical thinking skills have been eliminated.
- lgeorget 8y agoWhat is the point of having a projection in the first place if Earth is already flat?
- SKILNER 8y agoShould make us all realize how little we know.
- jashkenas 8y agoI whipped up a little interactive, high-rez version of the map for you all, here: https://observablehq.com/@jashkenas/urbano-montes-planisphere-1587 https://observablehq.com/@jashkenas/urbano-montes-planispher...