World map-impossible black tulip-small
Impossible Black Tulip - small scale polar projection version displayed in top of first left panel of first chinese world map
- Date
- 1602
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 634 × 637 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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"World map-impossible black tulip-small" (1602). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_map-impossible_black_tulip-small.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 20873.
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