Pretty close except scandinavia. It’s a mess up there.
It was a mess up here, yeah! My home county, Telemark, was just a white spot with a lake in the middle on most maps at that time.
Since the Middle Ages, and when Norway was first mapped in the 17th century, Telemark had only been a white spot on the map, that is to say, no so-called learned person had traveled through the region, and the area was mostly unknown to people in the cities and along Coast. The Telemark farmers had a reputation for being quarrelsome and ‘bloodthirsty’ and would not go out of their way to kill both priest and bailiff if it suited them. The hand ax was in frequent use and the knife was loosely in the sheath!
Jeez.
Holy shit my brain had a tough time with realizing that the normal map thing where the light part is land and the dark part is water isn’t what’s happening here 😅
They didn’t know about the Netherlands
Had the Netherlands already started getting land back from water in the 16th century?
How’d that get its name? It sounds almost like a corruption of French “acheter mer” (“to buy sea”).
I think what @i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml means is that on the Ottoman map you kinda get France, and then directly on the coastline right north of France you get Jutland. It’s sorta like if you took Europe and did a ripple cut to remove the Netherlands out of it.
What kind of projection is being used? Because each type of map geometry distorts elements, such as the way Greenland looks huge on the Mercator maps.
It’s the Mercator projection. The map behind it is just a normal map we’re used to seeing since it matches up fairly well it must be the same projection.
It’s noticeable different at the top though, so I doubt they were using the same projection as us.
Love how they dug a canal between Scotland and England.
