Maps!
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
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The Second Coming of Maps
Claudius Ptolemy and Gerardus Mercator made important cartography advances that also warped the world's understanding of itself. I wish I had known his first name was Claudius growing up like I really would have embarrassed myself. The goal was not to accurately depict the shape of land and where things are even, especially maps that just like put something at the center of the world.
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