1st November 2018, 3:38 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:That upside-down world map background Some (More) New uses is interesting stuff, I can't stop looking at it in their videos...
"Right side up" is an entirely arbitrary choice we've made anyway, one mainly made due to Europe getting to establish the map. It could easily have been "south side up".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)