The Mysterious World Map of Urbano Monte

The color atlas of the world, created by the cartographer Urbano Monte (years of life 1544-1613) 430 years ago (in 1587), recently scanned and restored by laying it openly.
An ancient map shows the world as it was 430 years ago. Researchers have restored 60 pages of the world atlas of Urbano Monte, in which mysterious creatures such as the unicorn Sibirin, ambulance ship, awful gigantic birds are represented.
A hand-written map measuring 10 feet in height and width was created by the little-known cartographer Urbano Monte in 1587. Monte was born into a well-to-do family in Milan and, since childhood, was fond of geography. From historical sources it is known that Monte met with the Japanese delegation, who visited Milan in 1585. Therefore, his map provides expanded information about Japan, which was not in other Western maps created at that time.
Monte worked on the creation of an atlas 18 years after Gerardus Mercator created a map, which is now used in most educational institutions and applications for smartphones. But the Monte card, unlike the Mercator, depicts the Earth as it is visible from space, directly above the North Pole. Recently Mercator’s projection has been criticized for its Euro-centric image, in which the western and northern regions are larger than they really are.
According to collector David Rumsey, who bought an old atlas and donated it to the David Rumsey cartography center at Stanford University, which he founded in 2016, Renaissance cartographers did not like “empty seats.”
“I think that Monte really tried to show the circular nature of the Earth,” Ramsey said, “It’s more than just a map.” This is a whole scientific tool. ”
Individual sheets and compositions of a fantastic map are now available on the Internet.

It is interesting that even 430 years ago Urbano Monte drew everything very correctly and in great detail. And it was created only 80 years after Columbus discovered America that you will agree on a very short period of time in order to draw up such a detailed map taking into account new discoveries. After all, in those days there were no satellites or planes, nothing with which to create something like that. And to create such a map 430 years ago, it was necessary to see the Earth precisely from the altitude of the flight of a modern aircraft or from the Earth’s orbit.
How did the ancient cartographer managed to create such a detailed map that it can now be superimposed on the globe and get an amazing correspondence of the data. It is interesting that the Earth on this map is depicted not as a sphere, but as a convex disk centered on the North Pole, as depicted on the UN emblem and around this flat and convex Earth, the Moon and the Sun rotate.
This is a mystery, because this card is also very accurate, for its creation, serious data on cartography was required, and its creator clearly knew what our planet looks like from space if the satellite making the photo was exactly above the North Pole, but at the same time the author of the map did not know , that the Sun does not rotate around the Earth, but on the contrary the Earth rotates around the Sun.