See the Wikipedia page for more details, and a far bigger version.
And I decided to see what it would look like mapped onto an actual globe. Since the free astronomy program Celestia allows you to do that quite easily. I spent a little time in photoshop to get the image to the right size and shape, and pasted it in. I was very pleased how well it turned out, even if some of the edges didn't quite match up. I felt like I was seeing the Earth as it would have been imagined by someone in the 1600s.
Europe and Africa...
The USA and Central America...
The Far East...
And India...
The ISS, heading towards the Nile Delta...
An old Earth at night...
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