Medieval Science
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How Does Geography Work?
Most common proofs are, first of all, to look at the sun and the stars. You can see that the sun rises and gets up to different heights depending on where you are. And as you can work out latitude and longitude, you can kind of more or less draw a grid and imagine the size of the earth and roughly where things are. How does geography work? Or even cartography, interms of navigation? People are travelling the world. They're trading, they're going to wars. How do they get around? How do they communicate to each other where they've been? There's two kinds really. I don't need to know what the latitude of london is
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