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- UltimateFerg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+95Wow - that is amazing. I always wonder how they made maps this accurate 500 years ago. Still, a few places missing though ;)
- Indyanna, on 10/11/2007, -4/+93This is not offbeat news. Please, Mr. Digg President, give us the category of History.
- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -9/+84I found Waldo!
- Izzywizzy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+72Here's an extremely high resolution map, from 1689, made in Amsterdam. Quite interesting as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:World_Map_1689.JPG
- Aidenag, on 10/11/2007, -0/+56Yeah its truly astonishing the detail the map has for its age. Here is the Wiki article on it for more information of anyone is interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldseem%C3%BCller_map
- qwerty1024, on 10/11/2007, -2/+57Wow, the elephants in Africa are huuuuuuge
- rstarr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+52Where be dragons...?
- Jezon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+38neat! but not nearly hi-res enough! I would love to read what the print says about each location.
- pwallroth, on 10/11/2007, -9/+43They drastically overestimated the size of Florida..
- swiftekho, on 10/11/2007, -1/+31The United States are still under water...
- markp93, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28Google FlatEarth
- steelese, on 10/11/2007, -0/+26This map is actually most amazing for it accurate representation of the South American Atlantic coast. It is said to be one of the most accurate maps of its time, and many decades following. The problem was that only a few people had even seen South America, let alone done any real cartography. This has led some scholars to claim that maybe Christopher Columbus was not the first person to visit America. They claim several privateers could have traveled the distance. They also claim that perhaps they were squelched from history do to their less than reputable status. Either way, cool map.
- rstarr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26Cali is already broken off in that map.
Who was the cartographer? Nostradamus? - esotericguy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23and i found the Spaghetti-Monster!
(Southern tip of Africa) - mindsnare, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21Good to see Australia on that map 100 years before England claimed to discover it, farken liars
- brianbennett, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18...probably has something to do with sailing along the coast and looking at the stars.
- saifatlast, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18According to the wikipedia article, it's so that it can be cut out and pasted onto a globe.
- Theipolicy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18Stupid gods have nothing better to do than blow on the Earth? How windy 1507 must have been.
- tybris, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Does that mean we should mark it as inaccurate?
- lengau, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Of course it wouldn't be accepted. There are BOOBIES on it! How can we expose our children to breasts after we've weaned them!
- swiftekho, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Hate to double post but after looking at it again I noticed something pretty cool if you like history at all. It may have been Martin Waldseemüller who drew the map but he clearly credits Amerigo Vespucci and Ptolemy, two very well known cartographers in the top of his drawing.
- manti5, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13How did they know almost the exact shape of the continents? I know people surveyed shorelines, but still.
- dweeb79, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Wow you're a ***** moron.
- matt9m5, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11High Res? *Digg*
- davidsetagaya, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Stop abusing the term 'racist'. Just because some wording might have been a bit 'euro-centric' doesn't mean it's racist.
Africans discovered everywhere, including Asia, if you go back far enough, so shut up already you whining biyatch. - IntellEJent, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11Most Americans wouldn't be able to find anything on the map anyways...
- rstarr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Oh of course the WHITE continent is perfect.
/Malcolm X - freetyme, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8OH YOUR SO SMART!
...oh wait, you meant New Orleans and have no idea what your talking about.
It happens, just think before you submit. - Hemato, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7It would be nice if it were "high-res" enough to even read most of the text on it.
- eliezerlp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I have a couple massive prints of a few of these antique maps printed on an Epson 9600 44" Printer.
Check the Library of Congress' Maps Division for high resolution maps mostly in MrSID format. - Tolzmaniac, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6"Here be Dragons"
- tybris, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Not yet discovered.
- ronocdh, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Probably it does have a lot of detail, and your link is informative, but I'd hardly call the dugg image "hi-res"... I can't see any detail! =(
- Gerz1219, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6How accurate do you think the Native Americans' world maps were in 1507? I'd say they were quite American-centric, omitting all of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
- CeeJayDK, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5"Your god blows."
"Oh yeah ? - Well , so does yours." - gormenghast, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5one does not simply walk into Asia
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Where are the turtles that hold up the earth?
- Scynet, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Awesome. Interesting religious pictures too, wouldn't be quite accepted in the modern world I think...
- inspecality, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5It's quite mind boggling.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4You mean the single elephant in Africa is huuuuuuge
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4I love old maps. Let's you in on the sense of not knowing what's out there.
What's up with the sadistic looking smiley face in Africa? - praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -1/+5Of course he wasn't the first. Vikings, man.
I've even read that west Africans could have possibly made the voyage. - polymorphist, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Are you sure it's not a map for some lousy RPG game?
- mindsnare, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The Dutch discovered the West coast and parts of the east coast of Australia well before England, they just never settled. It's not widely known but it's a fact. They called it New Holland
- HunterXI, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4This map was drawn by a Middle-German-speaking dude, not a Modern-English-speaking dude. Rest assured, he was no idiot.
- Antimatter3009, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5South Africa. Thar be drago- ... err, elephants.
- Wartz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Actually they did did discover it for a majority of the worlds population, since most estimates of the number of people native to north and south america range between between 4 and 15,000,000. I don't think the combined populations of Europe, Africa and Asia who were ignorant of the existence of 2 continents in between them and the path westwards to Japan in 1492 was less than 15 million.
- defectDS, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3And there's my car keys!
/stillnopickles - Raz4Life, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3And... there's my ride!
- krunk4ever, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3And there's Carmen Sandiego!
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