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If medieval cartographers understood that the world was round, did any of them try to take the curvature of the Earth into account when making maps? Were sections labelled "Here be dragons" apocryphal, and, if not, would such labeling have been taken as a joke or as a genuine warning?

by /u/td4999 in /r/AskHistorians

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