concluding that he had see a "fourth part" of the world, equivalent to Europe, Asia and Africa. From a painting by Gaston Save / Wikipedia Commons The map Ringmann and Waldseemüller (in a 1878-79 ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved ... Greenland at the top of the map appears much bigger and the continent of Africa appears much smaller.

I’m adding to this nonsense of what people think about Africa.” She knows she can only be responsible for what she creates but also is still wrestling with how to present her world.