Riley Creative Solutions 1595 Flat Earth Map of North Pole Art Poster | Septentrionalium Terrarum (3 Sizes) (23"x24.5")

SIZE: Choose from 3 sizes: 11"x12", 16"x17 and 23"x24.5". Remember, the bigger size you get the more details you can see. This map is printed on premium 32lb matte paper with fade resistant, premium inks and includes a white border on all sides to allow for matting and framing.HIGH QUALITY ART POSTER: This is a reproduction of Mercators Map of the North Pole - Septentrionalium Terrarum. Mercator explained the source for his cartography in a 1577 letter to John Dee, an English mathematician and astrologer:In the midst of the four countries is a Whirl-pool . . . into which there empty these four indrawing Seas which divide the North. And the water rushes round and descends into the earth just as if one were pouring it through a filter funnel. It is four degrees wide on every side of the Pole, that is to say eight degrees altogether. Except that right under the Pole there lies a bare rock in the midst of the Sea. Its circumference is almost 33 French miles, and it is all of magnetic stone. . ..This is word for word everything that I copied out of this author years ago. [E. G. R. Taylor, "A Letter Dated 1577 from Mercator to John Dee," in Imago Mundi 13 (1956), p. 60.]