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Maps!

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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Is It a Map of the World or a Multi Volume Stack of Books?

Mercator was trying to make a comprehensive like history of the world kind of image or. Yeah, like a multi volume stack of books. It was a German Duke hired him in the 1560s and he was also taking jobs as a math teacher and also he was taking jobs in the engraving industry. So all just working many jobs all at the same time. And then he said like with your patronage German Duke, I'm going to write a multi volume history of the World and also like a Christian cosmology of creation and everything else. Dude, this Kickstarter would have been.

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