Pretty good map for the 16th century anyhow, except India being where Russia would be
“India” did not mean then what it does now.
“Regio Gigantum?” So below the Cannibals and Ze German Belt, lies the land of giants?
cuba has always been cuba?!
I’m guessing the Taino called it something else.
ha, good point. i was just kinda shocked to see a legible ‘cuba’ and ‘florida’
Terra florida means something like “land with many flowers” in Spanish.
IIRC their word was something like “Kolba”
Looks like they called it Cuba
FWIW, this gives a somewhat different origin, although says it is derived from the local name.
either “great place” or “where fertile land is abundant”
So…first impressions pretty positive?
The only label on the map that’s both on Latin and in old German.
I really really want to find a good book or website showing the extended evolution of maps of the world or specific areas. This stuff fascinates me.
I’ve found a few minor ones over the years, but never a good one.
Sort of map-related, but the Longitude series/book is pretty fascinating. This map was drawn without really being able to calculate longitude except by dead reckoning.
Now I really want to see an animation of what the European discovery of the planet looked like. Imagine a time lapse of a Civilization game, as the map is slowly revealed. I want to see that, except actual history.
Also make the map shape and style match that times maps.
Man what a shit map, they are horrible at cartography /s
This dumbass didn’t even know the Maps app is free.
So are we not gonna talk about the whole area labels for cannibals?
We are now.
What’d you want to talk about?
Do clowns really taste funny or nah?
And how many wipes do they need after dumping their girlfriend?
wow. spain is north of florida.
Why “wow”…?
um. because its not far off but the replies I got explained the problems they had longitude and how it got better.
North/south would be latitude, so they could easily and accurately position them correctly with respect to that aspect.
Now im a bit confused about the replies I got. That would explain why the shapes are so wierd. I was thinking it was because they only new the coasts
As it should be… Navigators could determine latitudes pretty accurately by using astronomy. It was the longitude that was a big problem (maybe that’s part of the reason Japan is placed in the middle of the Pacific).
There was a British miniseries about John Harrison, the clockmaker who figured out how to measure longitude, with Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon. Worth watching if you can find it or want to watch the shitty quality versions on YouTube.
Sibera was part of India back then.
The water is colored green. Took my mind a bit of time to realize the land is water and the water is land
Probably azurite paint aging. Turns green (Edit: forgot to mention because it turns into malachite) over time and was super common Europe.
It’s why a ton of Renaissance art has greens where you’d expect blues
Where’s the dragons tho?
You have to Imagine them.
They be here.
We are the dragons
Musta been a cold day in North America.
How in sam hill are their vowel Vs and consonant Us in this‽
I absolutely love wildly inaccurate old maps. They have so much charm.
is it inaccurate? I just see the state of Texas and from what I’m told it’s bigger than then the northern hemisphere.
