‘Sundial’ distorts view of the world

Highly unusual, not to say confusing, but mathematically correct is the view of the world as seen in this untitled map of 1640 that made £4500 in a Dominic Winter (19.5% buyer’s premium) sale of March 1.

A second state example of a map first seen in the 1610 first edition of the Speculum of Franz Ritt…

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