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”).
Achter means in a local sense ‘at the back’ or ‘behind’ and meer means either ‘more’ or means ‘sea’ (e.g. IJsselmeer).
So it referrs to either “more land behind” the city of Alkmaar or or a sea behind the city.
Lake, meer means lake. Achtermeer is best translated as back lake, or behind lake. Assuming achter in this case is used as this. It could also mean the lake of Acht. Since Acht could also be the name of a location. See Markermeer.
TY. Funny how German and Dutch switch meaning here:
- meer – der See
- zee – das Meer, die See.
Achter is like aft or after (as in behind); meer is like mere (as in a lake). Aftermere would be an English bastardisation of the name.
Thank you!
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.
Yup! That’s what it looks like to me! After Denmark you get Sweden and Norway, and they’re easy to close to the UK!
Don’t underestimate the Wadden Sea.
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.
The geography itself is mapped completely differently, I assume they just didn’t make many expeditions that far north.
Love how they dug a canal between Scotland and England.
It’s called Great Glen Fault and it is almost a straight line through scotland, although way farher up north
Quite accurate
What’s really interesting is the mild longitudinal shifts while latitudes are really good. No doubt this was in large part because we can use the direction of the sun and stars to get North or South, but for east or west you were much more dependent on precision timekeeping.
Quite accurate about the land they ruled over and the Mediterranean as a whole.
Ireland no longer looks like a teddy bear, but some sort of bottle opener :/
Just compressed Belgium and Holland out of that shit.
Holland hadn’t reclaimed its land from the Spatial Sea yet
You’d think they’d get Sinai right…
I’m not sure why Island appears to have been hit by an asteroid?
Mate thats Ireland
I like how there’s a lion drawn on the east coast of Greece
