A two-metre circular map of the world as it was known in 1459
A two-metre circular map of the world as it was known in 1459. It is known as the map of the Venetian monk Fra Mauro, or the Carta Fra Mauro, from the island of Murano. The cartographer was Andrea Bianco. It was made for the King of Portugal.
Please try to examine it and pick out the parts of the world you know.
I am accustomed to reading a map of the world by looking for Russia as the point of departure, and then everything at once falls into place.
"Modern scholars consider that the river Edil, which flows into the Caspian Sea and runs much straighter than the Tanais to the north, is far better suited to dividing Europe from Asia," writes Fra Mauro, on the division of Europe and Asia along the course of the Volga.
