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The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science (www.newscientist.com)
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[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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

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