Reef Badlaw
Mar 26th, 2011, 11:47 PM
I was going to post this in Laz's Vinland-thread, but decided to create a new one, since 'Vinland' isn't mentioned in the lost remnants of the Inventio Fortunata or the Itinerarium...
-In which an elaborate hoax was concocted for the King Of England in 1360, for reasons unknown. The author claimed to have visited the North Pole, and discovered a huge whirlpool in the convergence four seas... as well as a giant 'magnet-mountain', which would explain why all compass-needles point north.
Cartographers held considerable scholarly 'sway' till the mid 1600's, and exchanged postulations via letters quite frequently... perpetuating myths created by frauds and fabricators as-well-as factual info.
http://bigthink.com/ideas/21166
(the North Pole-map is the Septentrionalium Terrarum; the first known 'map' of the Pole... or rather, the 'fake' Pole... depicting the magnet surrounded by the whirlpool)
-In which an elaborate hoax was concocted for the King Of England in 1360, for reasons unknown. The author claimed to have visited the North Pole, and discovered a huge whirlpool in the convergence four seas... as well as a giant 'magnet-mountain', which would explain why all compass-needles point north.
Cartographers held considerable scholarly 'sway' till the mid 1600's, and exchanged postulations via letters quite frequently... perpetuating myths created by frauds and fabricators as-well-as factual info.
http://bigthink.com/ideas/21166
(the North Pole-map is the Septentrionalium Terrarum; the first known 'map' of the Pole... or rather, the 'fake' Pole... depicting the magnet surrounded by the whirlpool)