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==== Maps allow us to see the whole ====

(Though first recognized through study of the night sky, at some point the idea spread that all the far lands of the world connected in a great loop. Maps make this real. You can hold the globe and identify all its parts. This was a radical shift in perception for human kind. The flat map with fuzzy unknown around the perimeter become a globe. Known.

The project of map making entered a new phase. No longer expanding in size but filling in layer upon layer of useful information.)