{"id":4769,"date":"2013-08-19T19:32:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T02:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2013-08-21T19:35:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T02:35:15","slug":"hic-sunt-dracones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/19\/hic-sunt-dracones\/","title":{"rendered":"Hic Sunt Dracones."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/oldest-globe-to-depict-the-new-world-may-have-been-discovered\/2013\/08\/19\/503b2b4a-06b4-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Washington Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Oldest globe to depict the New World may have been discovered<\/h1>\n<h3>By\u00a0Meeri Kim<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_606w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2013\/08\/16\/Health-Environment-Science\/Images\/globe31376687401.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.<\/p>\n<p>The globe, about the size of a grapefruit, is labeled in Latin and includes what were considered exotic territories such as Japan, Brazil and Arabia. North America is depicted as a group of scattered islands. The globe\u2019s lone sentence, above the coast of Southeast Asia, is \u201cHic Sunt Dracones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2009\u2018Here be dragons,\u2019 a very interesting sentence,\u201d said Thomas Sander, editor of the Portolan, the journal of the Washington Map Society. The journal published\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washmapsociety.org\/The-Portolan-Journal.htm\" target=\"_blank\" data-xslt=\"_http\">a comprehensive analysis of the globe\u00a0<\/a>Monday by collector Stefaan Missinne. \u201cIn early maps, you would see images of sea monsters; it was a way to say there\u2019s bad stuff out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/oldest-globe-to-depict-the-new-world-may-have-been-discovered\/2013\/08\/19\/503b2b4a-06b4-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WaPo.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post Oldest globe to depict the New World may have been discovered By\u00a0Meeri Kim An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs. The globe, about the size of a grapefruit, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}