Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens

[Jorge_Stolfi]

(That's from the Catalan atlas by the way, look at them domes).

Interesting!  It seems that the cartographer had onion domes on all the buildings of the Muslim world and Asia, and conical roofs on all the European ones.  Which would be consistent with the claims that the Russians, in the 13th century or earlier, copied their onion domes from Persia and/or Asian countries and/or the Mongols.

Why on earth would we expect consistent scales?  The flags are hundreds of meters tall. The human figures could crush entire cities underfoot!

Still, in the VMS central rosette the "medicine jars" are clearly meant to reach all the way to the starry heavens and beyond...  

By the way, people are aware that there is a tiny T-O map at the very NE corner of f85v2, right?  

Which means that the land depicted in the fold-out is not on Earth, but on another much bigger planet.

And obviously those six towers at the center of this world are the explanation for this You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

 All the best, --stolfi