This is amazing. I decided to hunt down old maps to see if any others were hidden in this way and I honestly couldn't believe it. Nearly all of them, especially the ones from the Medieval period all had to be flipped both vertically and horizontally. It is an eye opener as I had not seen this in all these maps before.

Here they are.

Cotton World map:



and the result after flipping both ways ...



Psalter World Map



and once corrected ...



Beatus World map



and corrected ...



Cosmas Indicopleustes' world map, from the 6th century, depicting the world as a flat rectangle.

(Looked like a polar bear on his back to me)



and the correction. Only vertical needed for this one ...



and then this one although this one I am not 100% certain on yet but it looks like it may be rotated 45 degrees and horizontally flipped.



???????



The body of water just to the right and up from center certainly looks like The Black Sea.

Now a couple of questions come to mind. I honestly don't think anyone else has noticed this because I have never read anything about it and the corrected version has never appeared anywhere that i am aware of so gee maybe I have just made a discovery that they can't call a coincidence. . Secondly why ? why were these maps deliberately drawn wrong ? They were obviously drawn for Alice for if you turned them upside down and looked at them in a mirror I think they would come out alright. So were they drawn for Alice ? This is really interesting and although I have read that the maps were preciously guarded why were these good world maps put out there but disguised. And who drew the first disguised map . The world map of 500 BCE is not disguised so when was it done and why was it copied ?

Hmmm ... always new things found to interrupt my final look at Phi ... but I guess it can wait. this is extremely important and interesting.

db

"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db