Wednesday, December 02, 2009

New Sensations: A World Called Earth














Take that, Ptolemy! Does this make you dizzy or disoriented? At "top" is an Australian map: MacArthur's Universal Corrective Map of the World (updated from 1979 edition).

I'd like to find a widget that lets one spin the globe around from any angle, virtually.

5 comments:

Adorably Dead said...

Holy crapplecakes it's all upside down. :p I had to look at it for a while to notice it though, lol. For a moment I just thought it was a map of Australia.

the walking man said...

There now with your graphic you have not only proven that the world is flat but upside down as well. Nicely done Erik!

Charles Gramlich said...

At first I thought I was looking at a map for some fantasy world. Pretty cool.

Johnny Yen said...

On the cover of the 1981 version of The Whole Earth Catalog, they had a picture of the earth in this perspective. It really does point out how the "north on top" view is Eurocentric.

Lana Gramlich said...

That's hysterical. Along that line, I think you'll get a kick out of this.