In his dedication on tavola XL he specifies how to arrange the sheets of the mappamondo and makes it explicit that the whole map was to be stuck on a wooden panel 5 and a half brachia square (3.25m) so that it could be revolved around a central pivot or pin through the north pole. Of great interest is the attempt Monte makes to make his map not just a geographical tool but to show climate, customs, length of day, distances within regions - in other words, to create a universal scientific planisphere. The David Rumsey Map Center recently acquired a manuscript of Monte's map and digitally assembled all 60 pieces into the full map (inlined above but click through to zoom/pan). The map consists of 60 panels that were meant to be assembled into a planisphere (a circular map that rotates about a central axis) measuring 10 feet across. In 1587, Urbano Monte made the largest known early map of Earth.
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