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Hacking Global Positioning Systems Onto 16th-Century Maps

What if GPS had existed in 1565? No satellites or microelectronics, sureโ€”but letโ€™s play along. Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps. Or sailors plotting Atlantic crossings with accuracy unheard of for the time. This whimsical intersection of history and tech was recently featured in a blog […]