2026-10-19 14:06 UTC
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures Evidently so: "Ptolemy's depiction of Scotland shows the country "turned on its side" so that the west coast is shown at the top and the east coast is in the southern position." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography_of_Scotland#Ptolemy
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@hannah@posts.rat.pictures 2026-10-19 14:17
@overholt@glammr.us i remember going down a rabbit hole about this once and there are a bunch of theories of varying crackpotitude about what happened there https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/_Texts/Ptolemy/2/2*.html https://saxonhistory.co.uk/roman/ptolemy-scotland