(09-01-2020, 09:49 AM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[quote="Linda" pid='33809' dateline='1578551607']
You have expressed your perspective well. Unless I have missed it what you haven't explained is what is going on with the top left section of the German Map with T/O in bottom right hand corner that I have linked to. Where does this other section represent and why is it illustrated in the way that it is?
Here again is the link to the other map that I was referring to:
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Thank you, i was hoping so, because i think it matters that we understand the exemplars as they were meant, not as we interpret them.
That link came back forbidden for me for some reason, but i think i know the one.
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Firstly, it is later, 1485 and therefore printed ptolemy had come into play in the meantime, and there has been another half decade or more of evolution of previous and subsequent examples of various maps and discussions thereof.
The page itself says
Ptolemy's rediscovery points to another development, the printing press. Although manuscript maps continued to be popular as elite commodities, mass-produced maps could reach a wider audience for the first time, as this map attests. These developments spurred a departure from the dependence on scholasticism of the late-Medieval period, as well as marked a realization that the world as early modern Europeans knew it no longer fit into the mold recorded by Medieval scholars and religious experts.
So my guess without knowing more details is that they placed the habitable part where Europe would be in the circlular ecumene, rather than the spherical earth of Oresme, while maintaing the no antipodes stance for religious reasons, and making Asia the less habitable section since that was now the area of Ottoman takeover, ie the fall of Constantinople had by then already occurred.