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John Hessler's blog, where he actually discusses methods for the cartographic analysis mentioned in the article, can be found here: http://warpinghistory.blogsp
by Maciek416 16y ago
John Hessler's blog, where he actually discusses methods for the cartographic analysis mentioned in the article, can be found here: http://warpinghistory.blogspot.com/ http://warpinghistory.blogspot.com/
Here's a sample map made by the mapmaker Mateo Prunes (3200x1800): http://fglorente.org/zen/albums/mapas/Mateo%20Prunes.gif http://fglorente.org/zen/albums/mapas/Mateo%20Prunes.gif
- grandalf 16y agothanks for the great link!
- anigbrowl 16y agoThanks for this. It's really quite astounding how good ancient cartography was, given the limitations. For all that we live in very exciting times today - and can communicate in almost real time to discuss such subjects - how thrilling, and slightly scary, it must have been to live in those times and be among the few to have a firm grasp on the fundamentals of science and the natural world.