cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/352423
Alt Text: 1 Guy: No one buys maps anymore. My career is over. 2 crumples up map and throws it 3 Guy, looking at crumpled up map: Wait a minute… 4 Guy selling globes
cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/352423
Alt Text: 1 Guy: No one buys maps anymore. My career is over. 2 crumples up map and throws it 3 Guy, looking at crumpled up map: Wait a minute… 4 Guy selling globes
Earth has been proven to be spherical in 5th century BC, right? Do we have traces of globes made back when half of the Earth hasn’t been well known?
If we do, looking at must’ve felt pretty weird to the people living back then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdapfel
It’s fascinating that they expanded the known landmass to cover the sphere instead of leaving the unknown area blank or oceanic. I wonder if Columbus saw this globe and figured it couldn’t be hard to get to India because of it, while everyone actually educated knew the planet was far bigger than that, with a much bigger gap.