- museum map
Here is an image of the mapping dreamscape at the new Canberra museum. Photo from The Age, Sat 10/3/01, p13. North is pointing to the lower left of the
Mar 12, 2001 @ 00:12 - Brendan Whyte (Brendan Whyte <b.whyte@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] museum map
looks fantastic i wonder if they deliberately made it from an east timorese point of view also how did they deliver on the popes line promise like did it have
Mar 12, 2001 @ 06:53 - michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] museum map
There wasn t a pope s line this end of the world, only in the atlantic, so i m not sure how that fits in. I hope to have more deatils when i can get a
Mar 12, 2001 @ 22:42 - Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
- Re: museum map
Are you sure there wasn t a pope s line in Australia? As far as I know, according to the Tordesillas treaty a line was drawn somewhere near 50 deg. west long.
Mar 13, 2001 @ 08:31 - peter.smaardijk@and.com (peter.smaardijk@...)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: museum map
brilliant this must be the explanation m
Mar 13, 2001 @ 17:40 - michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: museum map
No, until Magellan no one knew the world was round, so couldn t draw a line on the other side. Remember longitude was a damn difficult thing to calculate for
Mar 13, 2001 @ 22:38 - Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
- Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: museum map
according to my cheap encyclopedia there were 2 tordesillas lines both of them explicitly bipolar circles that of the 1493 papal bull set the line 100 leagues
Mar 14, 2001 @ 04:30 - michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)