ALL of the Maps

           Finally, our honors class stopped arguing about if the Earth is flat or not and about the Mercator Map vs. the Peter's Map. Just like I said in a previous post, the maps were interesting however, they were not two classes worth of interest. Anyways, today we learned about a map that Eratosthenes created and several other odd-looking maps. The map that Eratosthenes made was supposedly of "the world" but it excluded half of the world (yes, I know a lot was undiscovered) and there were waterways and land masses all over the place! This map was definitely special looking but, for one of the first ever maps, it a very good depiction. Then, we continued to observe many other maps and they progressively got closer and closer to what maps now a days look like. One of my favorite maps was the one that looked very accurate except for Antarctica was gigantic, South America had Brazil growing out of the side of it, and Australia was on the wrong side. I actually found it pretty interesting that Australia was on the left and not the right. Personally, I found these distorted maps a lot more interesting than the Peter's and Mercator maps, but that could just be me.