According to ancientpages.com, collector David Rumsey has completed the digitization and restoration of an ancient atlas of the world, which is said to have been created by cartographer Urbano Monte (1544-1613) in 1587, more than 400 years back.
The map is far from the only one of its kind, but it is interesting for the very strange and contradictory information it contains.
The original map is a 10X10 foot drawing, assembled from sheets, made by hand, and for some reason the Earth is depicted in it when viewed from the North Pole, although, with the light hand of Mercator, the generally accepted "equatorocentric" model is today:
To project a Monte map onto a common world coordinate system:
Projecting a Monte Map on Google Earth:
Promotional video:
As you can see, having familiarized yourself with the map in detail on its owner's website (www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2017/11/26/largest-early-world-map-monte-s-10-ft-planisphere-of-1587), Mr. Urbano Monte drew everything very correctly and in great detail. At the same time, the map was drawn just 80 years after Mr. Columbus's boot first set foot on the shores of the future Honduras.
And now let's imagine a huge, powerful superpower of the level of the USSR or the United States of the late 20th century. But - without satellites and planes. That is, only a country with huge financial resources and a huge fleet. How long would it take for surveyors of the USSR to create such a detailed map? In 80 years they would not have done it. Even if they made a map of the Earth with the whole world.
Hence the question arises: how did the cartographers of Spain and Great Britain manage to do this, without walkie-talkies, without the Internet and using only the sailing fleet? This is how many sailboats had to sail the seas in order to survey each square drawn on the map for the islands?
Since such a strain of forces and means is difficult even to imagine, it would be correct to assume that Mr. Urbano Monte already had some kind of map, moreover, most likely, it was originally made either from airplanes or even from space. That is, perfectly accurate. All subsequent inconsistencies are the work of copy-pasteists-scribes who collected information from scattered sheets.
This is an obvious fact, noted by everyone who has ever tried to look at official history with a sober eye. And to this sober view, it is quite obvious that before us there was at least one developed civilization on the planet. At the same time, it has sunk into oblivion not 15,000 years ago, as some academics now admit with creep, but much less time ago. We are talking about the terms during which documents are stored on organic media - paper, fabrics, and so on.
However, there is another strange thing about Mr. Monte's chart. According to his map, the Earth is not a sphere, but a kind of convex disk, centered at the North Pole, as depicted on the UN emblem.
And the Moon and the Sun revolve around this flat and convex Earth:
It looks very strange. That is, on the one hand, the sources of knowledge of Mr. Monte were very advanced in geography and definitely knew what the Earth would look like from space if the satellite hung exactly over the Arctic Circle. On the other hand, these sources did not know that the Sun does not revolve around the Earth, but in fact the Earth revolves around the Sun. How can this be? It's like being able to build starships, but not knowing the wheels and not knowing how to make fire.
We do not know why Mr. Monte painted the solar system geocentric and why on his map the Earth looks like a convex circle. Nevertheless, the map itself, and even the very fact of its appearance, are very interesting.
