Jan 25, 2018
6 min read
The Largest Early World Map is Unveiled For the First Time
Urbano Monte’s planisphere was centuries ahead of its time
On July 25, 01585, near the end of a century of unprecedented change, four Japanese boys stopped in Milan on their way back home to Japan. They’d been sent as the first Japanese Embassy to Europe three years earlier by the Jesuit missionary Alesandro Valignano. Their…
