stackyFACTSActual swashbucklers never buried their gold and they certainly did not draw convenient maps with a massive red letter on them. Robert Louis Stevenson completely fabricated the trope for his famous novel, forever ruining how children understand hidden loot and basic cartography.
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Early attempts to draw the globe were basically games of telephone. Cartographers would interview sailors who had spoken to other sailors, resulting in wild…
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Fictional transport heavily blurs the line between text and actual lived reality. When immersed in a highly descriptive novel, your internal simulator fires…
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If you look at medieval charts, you will be holding them sideways. Because the sun rises in the east, early mapmakers considered it the most important…
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Those terrifying sea serpents inked onto old nautical charts were not actual warnings of peril. Mapmakers simply hated leaving vast expanses of paper totally…
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In a desperate attempt to fix the size distortion of traditional maps, this alternative projection accurately represents the true scale of continents. The…
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That awkward, angled mount holding every spinning globe in every library is not just a stylistic choice. It mimics the exact axial tilt of our planet relative…
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