2022
The largest known world map of its time—made of 60 individual sheets—can finally be seen as the mapmaker intended.
This colourful and intricately detailed map from 1587 is more than nine feet by nine feet when fully assembled. For the last 430 years, its 60 individual sheets were bound together as an atlas, but now they have finally been put together—digitally—to reveal a complete picture of the world as it was understood at the time.
