Re: Waldseemuller map & Pacific Ocean


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Alan Crozier wrote:
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In this specific case it's very important not to refer to
consensus
since
one thing discussed in archeologic literature as well as the last
years
Archaeologic magazines is if there was an impact Eastern Asia -
South
America. Those who believe they know without studying early maps
can
hardly
be expected to be taken seriously at all - same goes for other
alike
'situations'. For example Australia is marked on early maps long
before it
officially was seen by someone from the old world.

Reference?

Alan

Reference? You must be joking.

Maps, here, are much the same as a Rorschach
test...they reveal something about the mind of
the chatterer, nothing about archaeology.

Gee, I wonder how a notation on an old map could
appear before someone had seen the place?

CORRECTION: before someone had *officially* seen the place

Oh, but Wait!I've seen maps of Hobbit-land. I guess that
meanssomeone visited the place, and it's worth more
idle speculation.

All those mappish sea monsters are probably real, too.

Yes. I've encountered some of them.

Alan


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