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Old 10-24-2013, 10:57 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Or did they? The Oronteus Finaeus map of 1531 tells us that someone knew about it. Dividing the map in half, the right half depicts Antarctica with shocking accuracy. The tips of South America and Africa (with Madagascar) and clearly visible and the land mass in question is given its own projection so this is clearly NOT a mere counterland.

That map reminds me of the Mandelbrot set, and the way they represented Earth on the map looks like the main cardioid.
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