I was always wondering how the ancient people (Greeks, Romans, Phenicians, Persians) drew maps with such accuracy. For example the curves of the Italian Peninsula, etc. Apparently, they did not have areal views.
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That’s the art of cartography. It involves using perspective and viewing angles.
I don’t know exactly how it was done, but I know that Captain James Cook was known to be very good at drawing maps of coastlines as seen from a ship sailing by.
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