1595 Map: Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio – North Pole Detailed Specifications This is a reproduction of the original map This Map Comes in Sizes: 11″x12″, 16″x17 and 23″x24.5″ We have more Flat Earth Maps, you can find them in Our Store We have more World Maps, you can find them in Our StoreREMEMBER, the smaller the map size the harder it is to read the text.All Our Maps and Posters Are Made in the USA Mercator explained the source for his cartography in a 1577 letter to John Dee, an English mathematician and astrologer: In the midst of the four countries is a Whirl-pool . . . into which there empty these four indrawing Seas which divide the North. And the water rushes round and descends into the earth just as if one were pouring it through a filter funnel. It is four degrees wide on every side of the Pole, that is to say eight degrees altogether. Except that right under the Pole there lies a bare rock in the midst of the Sea. Its circumference is almost 33 French miles, and it is all of magnetic stone. . .. This is word for word everything that I copied out of this author years ago. [E. G. R. Taylor, «A Letter Dated 1577 from Mercator to John Dee,» in Imago Mundi 13 (1956), p. 60.] This map comes with a white border around the image ————————— -How are the prints shipped? They are rolled and placed into a rigid tube or box. -Is this available in a larger/smaller size. Yes. For smaller or larger sizes, email us.