Oooh, i want one of these for my collection. I love old maps the less accurate, the better. I also really want a North America map showing California as an island.
They almost certainly didn't. The map is most likely a depiction someones views of the world, with Jerusalem being a melting pot, or a gateway between europe, asia and africa, that is to be seen as seperate from the continents due to it's importants. America of course being depicted completely remote. That's just my interpretation.
Holy accuracy!
Google en cartography
holly shit!
New projection just dropped!
America: Die Meme Belt
Welt* "the meme World"
Uh...Where's Texas? That's the only geographic feature that should matter on any map. The world revolves around Tejas afterall.
I've seen accuratester
Schweden
The continent-sized ship
All of China "Am I India to you?"
England *Rule Britannia plays in background*
I actually kinda like this map, it’s kinda cute
Oooh, i want one of these for my collection. I love old maps the less accurate, the better. I also really want a North America map showing California as an island.
The sea monster
How the actual fuck would anyone come up with this and think "yep, that's accurate"???
They almost certainly didn't. The map is most likely a depiction someones views of the world, with Jerusalem being a melting pot, or a gateway between europe, asia and africa, that is to be seen as seperate from the continents due to it's importants. America of course being depicted completely remote. That's just my interpretation.
England is not included in Europe because GOTT STRAFTE ES!!!!
ungern!
Asia
Asia
Jérusalem
Denmark
Dennemard
why in modern German all the -ia suffix of location names are rendered as -ien?
I wonder what this is dated to
Whoever got crossbow units out first
This would actually be sick if it was real
Accurate, Accurater,Accuratest. I don't think so unless you mean a test in accuracy "AccuraTEST".
Jerusalem ? More like İstanbul
I cannot grasp what year this must have been, but just the fact anyone post 1400s could actually have thought this is kinda funny
It must be after 1507 at the earliest, since that was the date of the first use in cartography of the name “America”.
the map is from 1581
I mean it's clearly not meant to be literal.