Rosettes foldout: cardinal directions?

[Linda]

To me, the TO map is upside down in the open page orientation of the roettes, mirroring at the point at which it connects, which is northern Europe. That is why i maintain that the tip of the page oriented with TO map up is not north, but northwest, since the connection comes from the northwest portion of the Europe section. However in some ways it does work as north. Ignore the first drawing below, i think that is the Oresme TO which is not the continent version but rather the sphere version of unknown, habitable, and water, the continent TO would fit inside the habitable section kinda sorta. North in the TO map in the middle drawing below would be at the far right, but instead the connection comes from the north west, which to me would indicate where the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, and France are located, given that the boot of Italy along that diagonal points at the Nile delta to the south.





The south emblem to me is the source of the Nile, the southernmost point thus far known at the time, but which is quite farther south than most of the known ecumene and thus a separate emblem was used. Also the Nile goes straight north south, not on the southeast angle from the northwest indication of the TO, so that problem is also solved by using a separate emblem.

Then the other two corners are west and east where the sun sets and rises. The two suns in Cosmas is an example, he was a flat earther (but disproved his own theory with his observation) thinking the sun was nearer than we know it to be now, he thought it hid behind the main mountain of the world when not in view, which rose to the north to create the climates. His maps of the world were some of the first drawn that we still have today (rather than described) and also oriented with north up, so there could be some correlation there.