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On 3/18/2011 4:16 PM, John Day wrote:
Again without citations, but I would suggest all of the above.
I think there is merit to this more expansive set of considerations, and
I wonder what the initial poster meant by "myth." Based on some answers,
there is merely an assumption of a repetitive cartographic error, which
could be due to copying a faulty source, perpetuation of a faulty
geographical or geological theory, and perhaps other reasons. But there
is also the question of "whose maps" (religious groups, non-western
cultures) and "whose myths." Are the maps of Tolkien's Middle Earth
"mythological?" One could assume they are. Given these possible
variations, there are any number of potential origins for "cartographic"
myths.
Joel Kovarsky
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