Mappery For the love of maps

How goes the World?

Reinder spotted this atlas in a bookshop in Lyon, “saw this Asia-Australia centered atlas cover in Librairie Passages, in Lyon, France.”

Centering the world map on Asia and Australia (which places the Americas to the east) reminds us thatthe adoption of the Prime Meridian through Greenwich was a choice by European cartographers not some inalienable geographic rule.

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