Wiki-walking, found this article collecting “Early World Maps” from antiquity through around 1800. I’ve always …

Wiki-walking, found this article collecting “Early World Maps” from antiquity through around 1800. I’ve always found it interesting to look at maps where they got the coastlines right, because they needed to be for sailing, but the proportions are all wrong. And it’s fascinating to compare the older Chinese maps that sort-of include Europe to the older European maps that sort-of include China, based on what little was known of each other at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_world_maps

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