Isidore 1493

Plate 2
Saint Isidore, Bishop of Seville, Spanish, c. 560–636
Untitled map of the world


Diameter: 2⅝ in. (6.7 cm)
Venice, 1493

This is a more complicated T–O map. Only the Northern Hemisphere is shown. The Southern Hemisphere was considered unattainable because no human could cross the torrid equatorial regions even to reach it.