Date: 28/12/2023 09:53:56
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 2107675
Subject: Fra Mauro World Map
From 1450 is worth a look:
From 1450 is worth a look:
The Rev Dodgson said:
From 1450 is worth a look:
Thers’s a lot of mistakes in that not to mention showing the earth as round.
Peak Warming Man said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
From 1450 is worth a look:Thers’s a lot of mistakes in that not to mention showing the earth as round.
… and the damn fools drawing it upside down.
I see Taprobana is there. The island that Strabo created by confusing a journey to Sumatra with that to Sri Lanka.
Drawing an island the shape and location of Sri Lanka but the size of the length of Sumatra.
It’s so big that India gets shrunk back to near zero.
The circumnavigation of Africa recorded by Herodotus is there. Africa is circled by ocean. And Madagascar is roughly in the right place. Unless the year 1450 is late enough … no, this is before Vasco da Gama. There were attempts before 1450 to find a sea route to India around Africa but they were unsuccessful.
I notice interestingly that Africa is labelled as Africa. Before it was known as the continent of Africa it was known as the continent of Libya.
All this stuff is a re-creation from the Gazetteer of Ptolemy, written in the second Century AD.
mollwollfumble said:
I see Taprobana is there. The island that Strabo created by confusing a journey to Sumatra with that to Sri Lanka.Drawing an island the shape and location of Sri Lanka but the size of the length of Sumatra.
It’s so big that India gets shrunk back to near zero.
The circumnavigation of Africa recorded by Herodotus is there. Africa is circled by ocean. And Madagascar is roughly in the right place. Unless the year 1450 is late enough … no, this is before Vasco da Gama. There were attempts before 1450 to find a sea route to India around Africa but they were unsuccessful.
I notice interestingly that Africa is labelled as Africa. Before it was known as the continent of Africa it was known as the continent of Libya.
All this stuff is a re-creation from the Gazetteer of Ptolemy, written in the second Century AD.
No, there is plenty of stuff post-Ptolemy; the islands of Japan for instance.
There is an article about the map in the Christmas edition New Scientist.
