Historical Bangor - Episode Three:
The Roman World Map of Marcus Agrippa
Dr Raoul McLaughlin | 9.56K subscribers | 875 views | Premiered Jun 9, 2022
Posted on 12/23/2022 3:40:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Historical Bangor - Episode Three:
The Roman World Map of Marcus Agrippa
Dr Raoul McLaughlin | 9.56K subscribers | 875 views | Premiered Jun 9, 2022
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[snip] Sharing my results from a Roman Map of the World calculator that I put together using Global25 scaled coordinates based on a map designed by Roman geographer Pomponius Mela in 43 CE. [/snip]>Roman Map of the World Calculator
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They had some REALLY bad cartographers back then...
They knew it too, but the cartographers had to work while the army was on the move, and were forced to march in front of the cavalry.
Hence the expression, “putting the cartographer before the horse.”
Seemed funnier in my head.
"I wanted to take my wife back to her birthplace in Wales, for old times' sake, to Bangor."
Interesting map.
What is interesting is that at that time they could build huge wonderful buildings, the aqueducts I imagine were about that time, etc.
I suppose whatever map projection he used is something that is unfamiliar to me - but the map sure seems far off from what I am used to looking at. But I imagine the map is just not very accurate. I suppose it is one thing to measure from a known reference for a building or an aquaduct, and another thing entirely to map on another continent.
I suppose they didn’t even have the means to measure distances - it was done by sketching a drawing??
At my engineering school we had the original survey notes from the 1800’s. One party surveyed from St. Louis, MO to Denver. IIRC they were only a few tenths of a foot off from what we can measure today.
Included stuff like using big boulders and large trees as monuments. Often a sentence or two about stopping the survey for days due to bad weather or Indians.
I'd imagine that it was based in secondhand info of sailing time and direction, and appears to have a Greek location (the author's home city?) as its locus.
Ah, sez he was born in Spain but used Greek sources.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pomponius-Mela
Punny!
Every once in a while I like to add a horse joke to stirrup things -- no extra charge.
You gotta be Shetland me…….
I hoof been known to do that.
Sort of odd east west orientation to the map, then you realize compasses were not yet in use, so I guess there would be little reason to orient a map toward North.
No, they didn’t have any sort of decent equipment to do the job, not even a compass. They did pretty good with those handicaps.
East is the direction of the sunrise, good a reason as any. :^) In Egypt the conceptual orientation was south to north due to the Nile river.
East is the direction of the sunrise, good a reason as any. :^) In Egypt the conceptual orientation was south to north due to the Nile river.
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Sounds logical. interesting to think about cartography before the invention of a compass.
Did Marco Polo have an atlas to show him the route to China?
No, he hitched a ride with a camel caravan................
How Did Ancient People Travel Without Maps?
GPS.............Great Polar Star................
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