I have been a bit intrigue into the investigation of many things, especially as a student of knowledge...higher learning can only consist of that which is scripture based, for as Muslims we know the Quran to be the source of ultimate truth explaining all things. Therefore, by it science & contemptible knowledge is given a light of orientation and subjugation. Unfortunately, we also know that is by the truth that the deceives use as reference to plant falsehood. Generations of predecessors were clearly closer to the truth in comparison to today because of their love of reading.
Even land borders and the actual way the world appears is given to use by the same secularist opinions. Really, think about that for a minute...This may seem a little far fetched in opinion, but let me assure you that it is precisely those ideals or thoughts that tend to come across the mind that are then disregarded as conspiracy. Where, in fact politically these notion help to distort the overall view or understanding that can then later distort the actual size of countries, boundaries, and positions. Furthermore, the ego-centrism of Europeans has known no limits to their corruption and deception in eradicating existing history that pre-dates them...
For many people today, that projection of half circled viewpoints depicting Eastern & Western world views− invented by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 − is the world map.The main reason Mercator's projection became so popular was because of its navigational usefulness; in his map, straight lines represent lines of constant compass bearing. However, in manipulating the map to ensure this feature, the sizes of countries become hugely distorted. In particular, the southern hemisphere appears much smaller than it is in reality. There is nothing inevitable or intrinsically correct — not in geographic, cartographic or even philosophical terms — about the north being represented as up, because up on a map is a human construction, not a natural one. Some of the very earliest Egyptian maps show the south as up, presumably equating the Nile’s northward flow with the force of gravity. And there was a long stretch in the medieval era when most European maps were drawn with the east on the top. If there was any doubt about this move’s religious significance, they illuminated it with their maps’ pious illustrations, whether of Adam and Eve or Christ enthroned. In the same period, Arab map makers often drew maps with the south facing up, possibly because this was how the Chinese did it also.
Things changed with the age of exploration. Like the Renaissance, this era didn’t start in Northern Europe. It began in the Mediterranean, somewhere between Europe and the Arab world. In the 14th and 15th centuries, increasingly precise navigational maps of the Mediterranean Sea and its many ports called Portolan charts appeared. They were designed for use by mariners navigating the sea’s trade routes with the help of a recently adopted technology, the compass. These maps had no real up or down — pictures and words faced in all sorts of directions, generally pointing inward from the edge of the map. All of such ideals & politics bring question marks to the whole global warming rhetoric etc. What's facinating to me besides the learning, is how everything is that was hidden is re-emerging by the will of Allah in opposition to the massive use of media & secular view points and their claims to authority/legality...
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