Spotlight[Living]: Robs Webstek

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The World upside down[*2]
Saturday, December 14, 2013

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The World upside down

The convention that North is at the top on most modern maps was established by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy (90-168 AD) and was adopted by other cartographers.

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The World upside down and centered on Indonesia

In modern times, reversed maps are made as a learning device or to illustrate Northern Hemisphere bias.

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