{"id":15902,"date":"2017-11-15T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15902"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:55:49","slug":"how-mapmakers-dealt-with-the-discovery-of-vast-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/how-mapmakers-dealt-with-the-discovery-of-vast-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mapmakers Dealt With The Discovery Of Vast Oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/111517_0358_HowMapmaker1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"433\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Genevieve Carlton wrote about maps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Voyagers like Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci found distant continents \u2013 and in the process forced European mapmakers to deal with the vastness of the oceans.<\/li>\n<li>Often they would shrink the size of the Atlantic ocean &#8211; making the new world seem much closer than it really was.<\/li>\n<li>Some were outraged by the scarcity of land in the southern hemisphere \u2013 and reasoned that there must be an undiscovered continent in the south, which they called &#8220;Terra Australis Nondum Cognita&#8221; \u2013 southern land not yet known (see image above)<\/li>\n<li>When Europeans ran into Australia they assumed that this was the fabled southern mega-continent, thus explaining how Australia got its name.<\/li>\n<li>The oceans could be used for branding purposes. Mapmaker Andr\u00e9 Th\u00e9vet, for example, names a series of non-existent islands after himself in the ocean.<\/li>\n<li>One Venetian nationalist littered the vast oceans with Venetian galleys \u2013 entirely unsuited for trans-oceanic travel, but propagating what was, by that point, the myth of Venice&#8217;s pre-eminence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more and see the visual evolution of maps on Atlas Obscura <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/mapmaking-cartography-ocean-water-sixteenth-century-europe\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genevieve Carlton wrote about maps: Voyagers like Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci found distant continents \u2013 and in the process forced European mapmakers to deal with the vastness of the oceans. Often they would shrink the size of the Atlantic ocean &#8211; making the new world seem much closer than it really was. Some were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/111517_0358_HowMapmaker1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15905,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions\/15905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}