[HN Gopher] 'Here Begins the Dark Sea' Review: A Map from the Fu...
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       'Here Begins the Dark Sea' Review: A Map from the Future
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-08-21 22:54 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | npalli wrote:
       | Great way to view the map here -->
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       | https://engineeringhistoricalmemory.com/FraMauro.php
        
       | haspoken wrote:
       | https://archive.is/Osgrr
        
         | dmarchand90 wrote:
         | Works for me
        
         | wing-_-nuts wrote:
         | this doesn't seem to work. I just keep getting captcha
         | redirects. I'm using firefox with ublock but not on a vpn.
         | Strange.
        
           | werrett wrote:
           | Using CloudFlare DNS by any chance?
           | 
           | Archive.ph Getting Cloudflare Blocked?
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082908
        
       | cjohnson318 wrote:
       | I couldn't make heads or tails of this map until I read the
       | Wikipedia article:
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       | The Fra Mauro world map is unusual, but typical of Fra Mauro's
       | portolan charts, in that its orientation is with the south at the
       | top. One explanation for why the map places south at the top is
       | that 15th-century compasses were south-pointing. In addition,
       | south at the top was used in Arab maps of the time. In contrast,
       | most European mappae mundi from the era placed east at the top,
       | since east was the direction of the biblical Garden of Eden.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Mauro_map
        
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