and the commentary interwoven into the map.” Although fascinated with the world, Monte was a homebody of sorts. Rather than venturing on explorations to gather firsthand knowledge of distant ...

It’s a 10-by-10-foot digital image of a 60-sheet world map drawn by hand in 1587 by Italian cartographer Urbano Monte–the largest known early map of the world. Talking over email, Rumsey told ...

But unlike the Mercator projection, Monte's map shows the world from directly above above the North Pole — a perspective now known as the north polar azimuthal projection. "The projection is ...

For a deeper understanding of the city, which became a UNESCO World ... Monte Albán is open daily from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, consult Visit Mexico's website. Monte Alban ...

The challenge of designing an accurate, detailed world map has stumped cartographers for centuries, but Urbano Monte got pretty close to achieving perfection in 1587. Now, for the first time ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

Program of Temporary Exhibitions, Round Tables of Monte Albán, Educational Services, Voluntary Custodians: Children and youths conserving the heritage (World Heritage in Young Hands), Anniversaries of ...