A planiglob from 1581 – the world as clovers

The cloverleaf map of the world, made in 1581 Henry Butling (Buntingus, Bunting, Pendingius), with the continents of the old world in the shape of three leaves and with the center in Jerusalem. Such maps did not have geographical purposes (navigational, commercial, etc.), but only illustrative ones. 1581_world_map_old The Imago Mundi map was published in Magdeburg in the volume Die eigentliche und warhafftige gestalt der Erden und des Meers (1581).

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