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What 16th century Ottomans thought Europe looked like on top of an actual map of Europe

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  • 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.

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