Pretty close except scandinavia. It’s a mess up there.
I think it’s just not aligned, they didn’t get the scale perfect. That pointy bit over the ocean and the bit hanging down from it are actually pretty close to right, just need to be moved over and twisted a bit.
All in all, I don’t think I could do any better.
It was a mess up here, yeah! My home county, Telemark, was just a white spot with a lake in the middle on most maps at that time.
Since the Middle Ages, and when Norway was first mapped in the 17th century, Telemark had only been a white spot on the map, that is to say, no so-called learned person had traveled through the region, and the area was mostly unknown to people in the cities and along Coast. The Telemark farmers had a reputation for being quarrelsome and ‘bloodthirsty’ and would not go out of their way to kill both priest and bailiff if it suited them. The hand ax was in frequent use and the knife was loosely in the sheath!
Jeez.
Not much difference these days amirite
They didn’t know about the Netherlands
Had the Netherlands already started getting land back from water in the 16th century?
I think what @i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml means is that on the Ottoman map you kinda get France, and then directly on the coastline right north of France you get Jutland. It’s sorta like if you took Europe and did a ripple cut to remove the Netherlands out of it.
Yup! That’s what it looks like to me! After Denmark you get Sweden and Norway, and they’re easy to close to the UK!
Don’t underestimate the Wadden Sea.
Love how they dug a canal between Scotland and England.
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.
Quite accurate
Quite accurate about the land they ruled over and the Mediterranean as a whole.
Ireland no longer looks like a teddy bear, but some sort of bottle opener :/
Just compressed Belgium and Holland out of that shit.
Holland hadn’t reclaimed its land from the Spatial Sea yet
You’d think they’d get Sinai right…
I’m not sure why Island appears to have been hit by an asteroid?
Mate thats Ireland
I like how there’s a lion drawn on the east coast of Greece
