Well.. for centuries going back to the Ancient Greeks at the very least some people believed that earth must be balanced and that land must be more or less equa

Well.. for centuries going back to the Ancient Greeks at the very least some people believed that earth must be balanced and that land must be more or less equally distributed across its surface otherwise because.. I guess that how they thought physics worked. > Especially when the map is the same size of the object it represents. On an extremely superficial level.