Tupaia_Kybernetes_LaraCroft

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Having been revisited several
times by the cross-cultural
mapping team consisting of
Tupaia, Cook, ship master Robert
Molyneux, junior officer Richard
Pickersgill and botanist scientist
Joseph Banks, the original
map drafts, in which Tupaia
marked the islands, have not
survived. The map has only been
preserved in the form of copies
made by other researchers—
one is located in the city archive
in Braunschweig, another in the
British Library in London—,
in which Eckstein and Schwarz
identified major differences that
allowed them to shed light on the
making of the map.
According to Eckstein
and Schwarz’s presumed
reconstruction of the actual
sequence of events regarding
the map’s creation, the
Europeans started the notating
process: following the logic of
Western map-making, they
drew two intersecting axes and
a surrounding frame, marking
the four cardinal directions
and delimiting the map’s four
quadrants before notating the
locations of a series of islands
they had already visited in the
vicinity of the Society islands.
Mercator projection
map started by the
Europeans displaying a
north arrow, the northsouth
and east-west
axes, a frame and the
islands they had visited
(marked with an x by
the author, redrawn
from the Braunschweig
city archive copy)
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