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☐ How did ancient cartographers make accurate maps of islands?

August 14, 2011 1:40 pmFebruary 19, 2020 Synetech Leave a comment

I can’t help but wonder how people made accurate maps in the old days before satellites or even air-ships. To accurately map the edges of an island, they would need to either see it from above, or else to keep exceedingly—and painstakingly—difficult measures of both distance and angles as the shore twists and turns.

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