Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The Medieval Monk Who Created "the Google Earth of the 1450s"


Fra Mauro, a Venetian cartographer-monk of the late Middle Ages created the most  accurate world map to that point in human history. Arab traders and world explorers and well-traveled refugees provided him with the details he needed to create the map. The gathering of its contents relied upon the fifteenth-century equivalent of crowdsourcing.


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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous5:34 pm

    Seems many of the grand difficult undertakings were done by monks. I suspect some became Monks to make sure they would eat tomorrow after spending every today on their project.
    xoxoxoBruce

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