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World map with countries real sizes
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"...a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts." - Wikipedia
Basically it was really cool and advanced geometry in the 1500s. Other fun inventions of the time included bongs, rifles, and knitting machines.