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A famous drawing by Urbano Monte, the 16th
century Italian cartographer, is a world map drawn on
60 sheets of paper. In 2017, the Stanford University
library connected them with digital technology. The
octagonal image is 3 meters in diameter and is
believed to be the largest world map from the 16th
century. In addition to the large size, Urbano Monte
did not use the common Mercator projection that
uses the equator as the midline, with the north pole
100 and south pole at the upper and lower end. Instead,
Monte used the North Pole as the centre, an unusual
approach in map making. The drawing's perspective
is looking down from the top of the earth, the ocean
and continents are more stereoscopic this way.

The emblem designed by the United Nations in 1945
contains a world map that emulates Monte’s map,
“representing an azimuthal equidistant projection
centred on the North Pole.”