Altered Maps XVI: Gerardus Mercator Must Die

[Arakhor]

Cis means "near" and trans means "far".

 

[Lohrenswald]

and?

 

[Kyriakos]

It was a pun on the trans side of funny, tenuously relevant to the rest of the cis-pool of images posted in the thread?

 

[W|M]

and?

The border between West Virginia state and Ohio state is marked by the Ohio River

 

[Traitorfish]

That image employs a Venn diagram consisting (presumably) of people who know about the Ohio purchase and the naming of Roman provinces. I can't imagine it's a particularly large diagram.

Kentucky was originally called "Transylvania", so it's a diagram that may include at least a few Cisohians.

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[Traitorfish]

"Byeprus" wins, other countries should send Cyprus much Euromonies.

 

[Lohrenswald]

The border between West Virginia state and Ohio state is marked by the Ohio River

why are you explaining to me the logic I used in making my map?

 

[Kyriakos]

"Byeprus" wins, other countries should send Cyprus much Euromonies.

Halta, Abortugal and Slovacate were also good, imo.

 

[r16]

Any system in there about what is shuffled o_O?

not that ı know but ı have noticed the 4 countries properly named have a stance about keeping their territorial integrity whole . While Turkey's is a joke in the 21st Century but anyhow . Nor ı have an idea that this Northern League of Italy could do a Catalan style referandum .

opps , sorry for omitting Ukraine but am so anti-Western these days .

 

[Takhisis]

2015 Polish Presidential Elections results and the population density of wild boars

Korrelacija il kauzacija? (I'm probably missing many diacritics. You can't have Polen without diacritics)

Cis means "near" and trans means "far".

Actually it's ‘this side of’ and ‘beyond’. See Cis- and Transleithania, or the Cis-Padane and Trans-Padane divisions of Cis-Alpine Gaul.

 

[Kyriakos]

Part of:

 

[Arakhor]

If Kola etc. is the Russian pig's tail, what is the Baltic exclave?

 

[Snerk]

High resolution pls.

 

[Kyriakos]

If Kola etc. is the Russian pig's tail, what is the Baltic exclave?

Looks like a female face.
Wait, no, that is Lithuania.

 

[Takhisis]

High resolution pls.

+1

 

[Kyriakos]

This map is often attributed to Anaximander (7th-6th century BC), though it isn't certain he presented it (Anaximander is mostly remembered for first using trigonometry on the solar clock, and the notion of the Infinite)

Three centuries later, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, librarian of the great library of Alexandria and mathematician, would calculate the circumference of the earth, with only marginal error (due to calculating it as a sphere instead of the spheroid due to the poles being more compressed). Ie it would be known that the earth was considerably larger than in the map presented above.

 

[Takhisis]

^Which is why it keeps baffling me that people insist on attributing the discovery of the planet being Earth-shaped to Columbus.

 

[Arakhor]

I forget his name, but the person in question was an 19th Century American writer, I believe, who first talked about Columbus sailing west "to prove that the world was round".

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I forget his name, but the person in question was an 19th Century American writer, I believe, who first talked about Columbus sailed west "to prove that the world was round".

He was the OG of fake news.