The latest map to live on added to my Mappae Mundi collection of historical basis maps is Urbano Monte's 1587 Planisphere. Urbano Monte's Planisphere has been inward the tidings a lot this yr because the David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University late acquired 1 of the alone ii existing manuscript copies of the map.
The master copy manuscript map is inward the degree of a lx canvas atlas. Urbano Monte intended for the sheets to live on joined together to exercise 1 really large 10 pes map. The David Rumsey Map Collection has achieved that finish past times digitizing all lx sheets together with creating a digital interactive map of the planisphere.
Urbano Monte's Planisphere uses a N polar azimuthal projection. This projection places the North Pole at the middle of the map. Monte himself suggested that a fundamental pin live on added to the middle of the map together with then that users could rotate the map piece exploring the atlas.
If you lot are interested inward viewing the map using unlike projections you lot tin role Urbano Monte World Map Reprojections.. Visionscarto has used the map tiles from the David Rumsey interactive map to exercise a tool for viewing the map inward 21 unlike map projections. They fifty-fifty include everyone's favorite Mercator projection, which way you lot tin brand straight comparisons amongst Google Maps if you lot together with then wish.
To thought Urbano Monte's Planisphere on my Mappae Mundi just click on the 1587 push clit together with expect for the map to load. You tin also thought the basis map at the David Rumsey Map Collection.
