#framauro — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #framauro, aggregated by home.social.
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Lovely Peeps, #Travel for me is restricted to my armchair at the moment - but I have no excuse to not still learn about this big, beautiful world of ours. 😊
Especially if a monk in #Venice in the mid-fifteenth century could do it well enough to create a #map of the world that *remains a reference for research to this day*. 😲
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fra-mauro-map
#History #AtlasObscura #Cartography #FraMauro #Archeology #Medieval #MedievalHistory #Explorers #Legends #Mythology
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The 15th-Century Monk Who Crowdsourced A Map Of The World - Fra Mauro Was The Google Earth Of The 1450s
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fra-mauro-map <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #mappamundi #crowdsourcing #framauro #venice #venezia #monk #map #cartography #global #worldmap #historicmap #history #medieval #trading #commerce #shipping #portugal #portguese #socialnetworking #seafarers #geography #cartography #cartographer #exploration #monk #1450s #annonations #mapmakers #mapmaking #ageofexploration