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
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.
They worked with an incorrect radius of the earth, so they didn’t stretch the known landmass. That’s the reason they thought they would find a way to india in the east.
It’s unlikely Columbus saw this globe before he sailed to America. It was finished around the same time he arrived.
Better look at the globe: https://globus1492.gnm.de/