historians did
It was not discovered, it was assumed until proved otherwise.
Countries and places are "discovered" maps are made by cartographers, not discovered.
Flat maps that represent a portion of the round earth are called "world maps". These maps use projections to show the Earth's curved surface on a flat surface, with distortions in size, shape, distance, or direction. Popular world maps include the Mercator projection, the Peters projection, and the Winkel Tripel projection.
Dear mom, i just discovered the world is a pair of balls!!! Sincerely,The guy who discovered the the world was a vagina
christphor columbus
Since the world is round, flat maps (rectangular maps) distort the sizes of continents by making them larger than they actually are.
No one ever discovered that the world was flat because it is not flat. The world is round. They just assumed it was flat because it seems flat.
The edges of Antarctica began to appear on world maps in the 1800s as its edges were discovered.
Flat maps distort properties such as size, shape, distance, and direction of geographic features on the Earth's surface due to the challenge of representing a 3D spherical surface on a 2D plane. This distortion becomes more pronounced the further away from the equator you get.
The biggest thing is that maps are flat and the Earth is round. Just like you can't peel an orange into all-flat pieces, you can't force a completely true picture of something rounded onto a flat surface. And just like if you flatten an orange peel, some parts will shrink and some parts will stretch. For maps this means that features - like coast lines will change shape and true position WRT each other when you go from rounded to flat. Since Anaximander, the Greek philosopher, first drew his interpretation of the world to todays maps, there have been significant changes. As the world is constantly changing paper maps are less reliable the older they are.
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Flat maps were drawn that way, because no one knew that the earth was round, until after Christopher Colombus.