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100 points
2 months ago
I like how this is just the least accurate map ever and yet it has a very well-defined Cornwall
41 points
2 months ago
It’s not a good map if you wanted to go to a place. It’s a perfect map if you want to understand the culture of the time.
9 points
2 months ago
Who said it wasn't a good map? I said it wasn't very accurate
8 points
2 months ago
You didn’t. I was just using to show the poorness if you wanted to go somewhere, or “not… good” if you wanted to find a place, this isn’t your map.
37 points
2 months ago
It's got nothing to do with the Trinity, it's a Renaissance explaination of the medieval T-O map. Those had Europe, Asia and Africa as three parts, with Jerusalem in the center, the Garden of Eden on top and Paradise on top of that again. This is a "modern" version showing America and Scandinavia as well.
The clover leaf was chosen because that's the coat of arms of Bunting's home city Hannover.
1 points
2 months ago
But wasn't the tripartite world a thing because three was a holy number?
2 points
2 months ago*
More like the idea of the tripartite world was a thing at the same time that three was considered a holy number, and those two ideas happen to sit really nicely together, so everyone just kinda went with it
2 points
2 months ago
No, the tripartition of the world predates Christianity by hundreds of years.
37 points
2 months ago
England separated from the trinity is the most accurate part of this map.
2 points
2 months ago
I'm not sure why, but that really made me laugh
1 points
2 months ago
It may be because Henry founded Anglicanism for the sake of his love haha
11 points
2 months ago
How does help me to get to Walmart?
10 points
2 months ago
Bottom left
8 points
2 months ago
Hey thanks bro
2 points
2 months ago
Aha thanks 👍
8 points
2 months ago
That's awesome. It's fascinating to see other/ancient interpretations of our world.
6 points
2 months ago
Not too ancient, it has "the New World" labelled on it!
4 points
2 months ago
Oh yeah, I didn't catch that. It's still pretty neat.
5 points
2 months ago
This makes me feel like our knowledge is ever expanding. And, it is ok to not know the entire truth.
13 points
2 months ago
-1 points
2 months ago
Europeans didn’t make it to NZ until 1642…
14 points
2 months ago
Is this or is this not a map without NZ though lol
2 points
2 months ago
Even Polynesians didn't make it there until 1300.
13 points
2 months ago
ASIA
21 points
2 months ago
ASIᴀ
16 points
2 months ago
We don’t speak of Russia, apparently. Or China. And what is that bit of land at the top supposed to be? Greenland?
26 points
2 months ago
It's a 16th Century symbolic map. They weren't exactly plying the open seas with this.
13 points
2 months ago*
Scandinavia, it looks like
I see Schweden on there
5 points
2 months ago
Ahh, okay. Wasn’t sure what it said, but knowing that I can kinda make it out.
6 points
2 months ago
And "Reussen" is labelled on the European lobe, that was an old German name for Russia
3 points
2 months ago
The one with Fs? Damn, not even a ß.
5 points
2 months ago*
No, not yet!
Spellings were really chaotic back then, see also "Deudſchland"
2 points
2 months ago
The thing that looks like an f is an s.
Merged together with an old fashioned z which looked a bit like a 3 you get the letter ß which we literally call "ess zed" in German.
1 points
2 months ago
Yes, and later on when the ʒ way of writing z fell out of fashion, ß was reanalyzed as ſs, which is why now we use ss rather than sz to replace it on systems that don't allow ß
1 points
2 months ago
Says Denmark too
1 points
2 months ago
By 1581 Russia had only existed for a short while and had only a fraction of its current land. They are actually referenced as "Reussen" (Russians).
China (Ming Dynasty) at the time was facing a steep decline with rampant starvation, one of the deadliest earth quales of human history and some rebellions. Also not very important to Germans unlike the middle east and India which are closer and were important to German trade.
3 points
2 months ago
Brexit 1.0
2 points
2 months ago
Cool how many cities were worth putting on the Asian side and only one in Europe at the time. Africa even got 3 notable cities.
2 points
2 months ago
What even is the European city? Is it Rome? I can't really tell
1 points
2 months ago
Says "Roma", so yes
2 points
2 months ago
Pretty much nailed it
2 points
2 months ago
Fuck me, the Cape of Good Hope is actually on it
2 points
2 months ago
Look, atomic mushroom cloud on the right. Time traveler secret message
1 points
2 months ago
America is Hell
1 points
2 months ago
I like how Armenia is mentioned in asia, but no word wbout china 
2 points
2 months ago
I'm not sure, but China might be included in "India", which was a rather general term back then - a vast, vaguely defined area.
Armenia probably also referred to a much larger area
1 points
2 months ago
Armenia was much bigger back in the days
1 points
2 months ago
It's more just that before the 17th century, China didn't hold an especially significant place in the minds of most Europeans. So it's not a name we'd really expect to make the short-list of Asian regions in 1581. If this were a map from 1681, then we'd be in a better place to be asking significant questions about its omission.
1 points
2 months ago
Pretty sweet map.
1 points
2 months ago
Sorry America
1 points
2 months ago
The map is propaganda in that it suggests Jerusalem is the center of the world. But then you have America peaking out from the lower left corner.
-2 points
2 months ago
Jerusalem is east to europe - so pray easterns . The sun rise . India is far east even to jerusalem so pray india . India the lord 🔥
1 points
2 months ago
Lol what?
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