{"id":4974,"date":"2018-02-19T20:53:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outilstice.com\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:08:13","slug":"la-plus-grande-et-plus-ancienne-carte-du-monde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outilstice.com\/en\/2018\/02\/la-plus-grande-et-plus-ancienne-carte-du-monde\/","title":{"rendered":"The largest and oldest map in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4977\" src=\"https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gravure-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"engraving\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gravure-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gravure-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><strong>Long, long before Google Earth,<\/strong> Long before GPS and the invention of digital mapping, scientists spent entire lives gathering all the knowledge about paper manuscripts. Urbano Monte, a 16th-century Milanese scientist, published a 60-page manuscript with the ambition of mapping the entire earth. A jewel dating from 1587. <strong>Scientists from Stanford University have just digitised the plates of this manuscript and assembled them to reconstruct a global map. The largest map in the world.<\/strong> The result is beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4975\" src=\"https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/carte1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"map\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/carte1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/carte1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/carte1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/carte1-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/carte1-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/carte1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stanford cartographers used computers to assemble the boards<\/strong> precisely on a flat map, but also on a 3D hemisphere. Rich idea. The hand-drawn map still questions many specialists for its richness and precision.<\/p>\n<p>For example, you can discover an extremely precise Japan built probably thanks to the official visit of a first Japanese delegation a few years earlier. It also shows the islands of Tierra del Fuego in South America, which Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese explorer, had discovered in 1520. We also fly over lesser-known areas such as Central Africa or distant seas where we discover sea monsters and sinking ships.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4976\" src=\"https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/afrique-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"Map of Africa\" width=\"646\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/afrique-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/afrique-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/afrique-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/outilstice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/afrique.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This computer reconstituted atlas measures nearly ten square meters. Huge, huge indeed.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The digitized map <a title=\"Map\" href=\"https:\/\/www.davidrumsey.com\/luna\/servlet\/view\/search?q=pub_list_no%3D%2210130.000%22&amp;qvq=sort%3APub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No%3Blc%3ARUMSEY~8~1&amp;sort=pub_list_no%2Cseries_no&amp;pgs=100&amp;res=1&amp;mi=51&amp;trs=81866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">consult online in high definition board by board.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The video made on this occasion of this Mappemonde rises from the past has enough to make forget all the declinations of Google Earth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5nVoEArBeyY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Stanford Library published <strong>a very comprehensive brochure in which she reviews this work of putting Urbano Monte\u2019s immense work into perspective.<\/strong> You can download it below. It is free, but unfortunately only in English.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a title=\"Brichure\" href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/rumsey3\/Monte\/Urbano+Monte+Catalog.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Stanford Library Brochure.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A reader has just sent me a link to an article in \u2018LiveScience\u2019 which sheds new light on Urbano Monte\u2019s work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/61853-renaissance-mapmaker-copycat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Between genius and copier \u2026<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long, long before Google Earth, long before GPS and the invention of digital mapping, scholars spent entire lives gathering all the knowledge about paper manuscripts. 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