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A comic about globes. (media.mstdn.social)

submitted 6 days ago by Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/352423

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Alt Text: 1 Guy: No one buys maps anymore. My career is over. 2 crumples up map and throws it 3 Guy, looking at crumpled up map: Wait a minute… 4 Guy selling globes

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[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Earth has been proven to be spherical in 5th century BC, right? Do we have traces of globes made back when half of the Earth hasn't been well known?

If we do, looking at must've felt pretty weird to the people living back then.

[–] EinMensch@feddit.org 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdapfel

[–] Iunnrais@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It’s fascinating that they expanded the known landmass to cover the sphere instead of leaving the unknown area blank or oceanic. I wonder if Columbus saw this globe and figured it couldn’t be hard to get to India because of it, while everyone actually educated knew the planet was far bigger than that, with a much bigger gap.

[–] EinMensch@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

They worked with an incorrect radius of the earth, so they didn't stretch the known landmass. That's the reason they thought they would find a way to india in the east.

It's unlikely Columbus saw this globe before he sailed to America. It was finished around the same time he arrived.

Better look at the globe: https://globus1492.gnm.de/

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Terrestrial globes are known to have been made from antiquity, such as The Globe of Crates. None are known to have survived, even as fragments. A celestial globe, part of the Farnese Atlas, has survived from the second century AD.