pickI really enjoyed this book. It's well-written and engaging. It serves as a good biography of Mercator, covering his life as well as the influences (personal, religious, political, etc.) that went into his work. It also discusses alot of the different developments that occurred in cartography and map making during this period, as well as how the unknown parts of the world were dealt with. Definitely recommend.
Interesting flipsides to printing a map of a realm. On the one hand, commissioning and developing a map had political and propaganda purposes. However, enemy countries could use it when invading to figure out terrain and resources.
Up next for reading. Growing up, I was fascinated by maps.
pickAn adventure on the high seas with a talented junior mapmaker. I never really thought about how ships figured out where to go to “discover” a new landmass. There was definite emphasis on how there were already people in these places that were claimed to have been found by the empire.
#auldlangspine list keeps giving wins @MeganAnn
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While I was searching for Discworld themed knit or crochet projects I came across a cute Great A‘tuin amigurumi pattern. I don‘t know anything about amigurumi yet. I have a beginner project sitting in the frog pond waiting for me to attempt again. So this link https://www.planetjune.com/blog/about/amigurumi-discworld/ is beyond my understanding and looks suitable for someone with better creative skills.
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panYikes. I‘ve never seen such a promising premise fall apart so spectacularly in the last five chapters. Avoiding spoilers, but the plot fell to pieces, character motivations stopped making sense, even the message the author was aiming for gets reversed and trivialized. And all within about twenty pages. I‘d almost be impressed, if the book‘s ending hadn‘t been so bad.
so-soThis was a funish mystery, but it got a little too far fetched by the end. It‘s hard not to with magical realism.
