{"id":2368,"date":"2013-01-06T10:24:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T17:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2013-01-06T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T22:43:17","slug":"the-map-of-the-world-is-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"The map of the world is flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mapsandglobes4.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2370\" alt=\"mapsandglobes4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mapsandglobes4.jpg?resize=500%2C257&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mapsandglobes4.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mapsandglobes4.jpg?resize=300%2C154&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maria Popova <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/04\/how-we-use-maps-and-globes-1968\/\">shares<\/a> some pages from an enchanting Sixties-era British schoolbook about maps and globes (the above image is an excerpt). She muses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But besides the educational value and the sheer vintage gorgeousness of the artwork, these illustrations also remind us of what we\u2019ve lost along with everything we\u2019ve gained in the past half-century of technological progress \u2014 the pride in telling direction just by your shadow in the sun, the awe of gazing at the night sky and knowing that you share the North Star with millennia of fellow explorers, or even the simple joy of spinning a globe with your index finger. (Whatever happened to globes, anyway?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How true is this, I wonder? It strikes me that I haven&#8217;t seen a globe in a while. Have they gone away, another dead medium? (I used to own a globe. What happened to it? I don&#8217;t even remember discarding it. I hope that I,\u00a0like some weary Atlas,\u00a0heaved it manfully into a landfill.)<\/p>\n<p>Do they still have globes in elementary school classrooms, or have they been replaced by Google Earth?<\/p>\n<p>We rely on (flat) maps a lot more now, but, condensed onto diminutive screens, they reveal to us ever less of the world, and they often situate us at the center of things \u2014\u00a0a pleasant, pre-Copernican\u00a0illusion. Maps have become more directional, less geographic \u2014 certainly less <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geography.wisc.edu\/histcart\/broadsht\/brdsht5.pdf\">evocative<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know, but I wonder if that changes the way people imagine the world and their place in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Popova shares some pages from an enchanting Sixties-era British schoolbook about maps and globes (the above image is an excerpt). She muses: But besides the educational value and the sheer vintage gorgeousness of the artwork, these illustrations also remind us of what we\u2019ve lost along with everything we\u2019ve gained in the past half-century of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}