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veen  ·  3953 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I LOVE MAPS: Internet Land

Maps are amazing, I love maps! I have this huge wall map from the Netherlands in ~1970 hanging:

One of the maps I really like is this one:

It is an Arabian map from 1138, with south being up and Europe on the far bottom right. A bit of a puzzle but a completely different perspective than most maps of that time. You can recognize from left to right Greece's islands, Italy and the blob that is Spain.

This one is also amazing:

An 1898 map made by Luthereans still believing the geocentric model. The sun would float around in the circle. Amazingly, it reads "Four Hundred Passages in the Bible that Condemn the Globe Theory, or the Flying Earth, and None Sustain It. This Map is the Bible Map of the World."

Finally, if I'm ever gonna get a tattoo, it's gonna be this amazing Dymaxion map. It shows the Earth's landmasses as one continuous piece, every person on the Earth connected. Unifying the continents, quite poetic really.