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Post by MoMo on Mar 13, 2014 20:35:23 GMT -6
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Post by Ophiuchus on Mar 13, 2014 21:31:20 GMT -6
Some of them are surprisingly accurate, that peninsula in southeast Asian featured in all but Piri Reis's map appears to be extremely exaggerated. Is it a combination of Indonesia and the Malay peninsula? India is pretty obvious the followed by what appears to be the Malay peninsula, and then... Indochinese peninsula maybe, the Philippines?
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Post by MoMo on Mar 14, 2014 8:01:39 GMT -6
On the Pietro Coppo map that's called the Dragontail of Asia, I guess that was the last map it appeared in.
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Post by MoMo on Mar 14, 2014 8:08:16 GMT -6
 "Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula" by Hendrik Hondius (1630)Notice California is still depicted as an island, in this later map |
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Post by Ophiuchus on Mar 14, 2014 18:57:05 GMT -6
Lol it like they new Australia was there but just couldn't commit.
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Post by MoMo on Mar 15, 2014 10:10:46 GMT -6
Aristotle proposed the existence of a Southern Continent Terra Australis as something of a counter balance for the Northern Continents. The ancients new a lot more than they ever taught us. By the Age of Discovery, geologist, astronomers and cartographers had a decent grasp on the dimensions and layout of the earth, they just needed to fill in the details.
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