Al-Idrisi’s world map in an 1154 atlas with Arabia on top:
A map based on Ptolemy's Geographia, 1482:
Johann Ruysch's map, 1507:
Clavdii Ptolemaei Geographicae enarrationis libri octo Bilibaldo
Pirckeym hero interprete Annotationes Ioannes de Regio Monte in errores
commissos a Iacobo Angelo in translatione sua, 1525:
Ortelius’s map of the world, 1564:
Map by Paolo Forlani based on the work of Italian cartographer, Giacomo Gastaldi, 1565:
The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, 1628:
Nicolaas Visscher, 1670:
Hi I am looking at older maps and apparently I am seeing things that no one else seems to see. In this map:
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What is east ? almsot all maps from the ancient world and medieval times need to be both vertically and horizontally flipped to assume the proper perspective. On the most famous one The Mappa Mundi The Red Sea it is labeled as a tiny river as the Red sea and ignores what is obviously the real red sea. Can you help me see what is going on with these maps ?