"It's the oldest surviving medieval map," said Meredith Francesca Small ... placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden outside of the planisphere, making it clear that Heaven is not a place ...

The “Cantino Planisphere,” completed in 1502 ... Photograph by Prisma/Album Medieval maps were usually constructed using a wind rose (a diagram showing the frequency, strength, and direction ...

Known as a "planisphere," the map is aligned in a “north polar azimuthal projection,” meaning that the North Pole is at its center. When he published his work in a four-volume, geographic ...

Planisphere made by Rumold Mercator in 1587 ... A map is, after all, a way of looking at the world. The medieval maps of Europe, for example, incorporated religious ideas, depicting Jerusalem ...