One needs to be careful with Polaris. The name was only coined 200 years after the Catalan atlas was made.
In antiquity, this star wasn't the closest visible star to the pole, and if the makers of the atlas were using traditional sources, they might not have associated this star with the pole.
The illustration could therefore simply mean the (virtual) pole itself.
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In antiquity, this star wasn't the closest visible star to the pole, and if the makers of the atlas were using traditional sources, they might not have associated this star with the pole.
The illustration could therefore simply mean the (virtual) pole itself.
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