cartography

[Argonavis (William)]

some of you may be familiar with the beauty of celestial cartography:

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/celestia/celestia.htm


Here is a site with historical terrestrial maps:

http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/index.html


However, I am way too spoilt by my Argonavis DSC, and rarely ever refer to a real maps anymore.

[TrevorW]

These old maps to me still are interesting to me, from these you can plot the progression and development of astronomy throughout the ages.

Imagine the skill and dedication of these pioneers working with limited equipment to chart our night skies.

These were the wonder years of astronomy when little was known about our universe and much was too be learned.

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

I found this map and thought I would show it to you all

[Argonavis (William)]

Originally Posted by TrevorW

These old maps to me still are interesting to me, from these you can plot the progression and development of astronomy throughout the ages.

Imagine the skill and dedication of these pioneers working with limited equipment to chart our night skies.

These were the wonder years of astronomy when little was known about our universe and much was too be learned.

The very early sky maps were more art than science. It was an interesting progression from myth and legend to depicting scientific accuracy.

It is interesting that the early globes depict the view of the Gods - from the outside of the celestial sphere.

[Argonavis (William)]

Originally Posted by supernova1965

I found this map and thought I would show it to you all

These maps appear to not only predate Federation, but also the creation of the colonies of Victoria and Queensland in 1850 and 1870 respectively.

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

Originally Posted by Argonavis

These maps appear to not only predate Federation, but also the creation of the colonies of Victoria and Queensland in 1850 and 1870 respectively.

Down the bottom of the map I found the following info

Engraving from the Tallis Illustrated Atlas 1851
The Illustrations by J Marchant & engraved by J.B.Allen
The map drawn & engraved by J Rapkin

[JimmyH155]

My son recently gave me a huge map of the world that is not the usual Mercator projection. It is called the Peters projection and represents countries accurately according to their surface areas. Have you noticed on the common world maps, Greenland looks almost as big as Africa - totally distorted near the poles. On the Peters projection you can see the real difference in land area. Funny, but Africa and South America now look long and skinny, and even Australia is elongated

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

Originally Posted by JimmyH155

My son recently gave me a huge map of the world that is not the usual Mercator projection. It is called the Peters projection and represents countries accurately according to their surface areas. Have you noticed on the common world maps, Greenland looks almost as big as Africa - totally distorted near the poles. On the Peters projection you can see the real difference in land area. Funny, but Africa and South America now look long and skinny, and even Australia is elongated

I saw an episode of the west wing when they talked about this it was very interesting