Now I really want to see an animation of what the European discovery of the planet looked like. Imagine a time lapse of a Civilization game, as the map is slowly revealed. I want to see that, except actual history.

Anyone know what Zipangri is? Could that be Baja California, or what?

Edit: Japan. Is apparently just off the coast of Mexico

I really really want to find a good book or website showing the extended evolution of maps of the world or specific areas. This stuff fascinates me.

I’ve found a few minor ones over the years, but never a good one.

So are we not gonna talk about the whole area labels for cannibals?

Pretty good map for the 16th century anyhow, except India being where Russia would be

“Regio Gigantum?” So below the Cannibals and Ze German Belt, lies the land of giants?

The only label on the map that’s both on Latin and in old German.

Man what a shit map, they are horrible at cartography /s