Your thoughts on the ancient 1513 Ottoman Piri Reis map of Antarctica ?
I haven't really pondered it much but in glancing at things online it seems to me to be from an era when men were transitioning from thinking the earth was flat and not yet grasping the earth as a globe with a north and south pole. To me,and I mean a view point of sailing a vessel along the coast, his map would be only an general depiction. So six feet knots on a rope or you would understand why so many vessels ran aground or sank during those years of exploration.
To me though my take of the map is that it was intended to denote the seas and their depths more accurately than the land masses to so that the shorelines could found. If you have never sailed across a body of water you may not see what I'm trying to describe so I'll explain. It's like the old saying a circle with a dot in it, most people look at it when ask what they see and point straight to the dot.
Your asking me about Piri Reis map
of Antartica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map but that means that you look at the map and your focus is on the
land but I shake my head because it isn't a map of the land at all
it is a map of the ocean and waters between the continents. This is a map drawn
Ottoman Admiral (a sailor) and so if you erase the things that you have read that suggest it is a map of the land and look at it again you will clearly see it is not intended to accurately depict the inwards of the land masses but instead the water. In short it is a map of the Atlantic,Caribbean ect. and not of what many are suggested to think it is.