It's proof that ancient mapmakers ran out of paper, curved it around.

这证明了古代制图者用完了纸，就把它弯曲了。

Time would change this view of the world in the eyes of British mapmakers.

在英国制图者看来，人们对于世界的看法会随着时间的改变而改变。

“Because...” Lupin hesitated, “because these mapmakers would have wanted to lure you out of school.

“因为......”卢平迟疑了，“因为制造地图的人可能是想引诱你们离开学校。

They tend to reveal more about the mapmakers than the lands they chronicle.

向人们提供更多的是地图背后那些地图制作者的故事。

Mapmakers may be geographers and cartographers, but they can also be artists and imperialists, storytellers and propagandists.

地图绘制者可能是地理学家和制图专家，但他们同时也可能既是艺术家又是帝国主义者，既是故事讲述人又是宣传分子。

Islamic mapmakers also created world maps in this format, emphasizing geographic details over fantastical elements.

伊斯兰制图师也以这种格式制作世界地图，强调地理细节而不是奇幻元素。

European mapmakers were guessing the location of his mythical kingdom.

欧洲的地图绘制者正在猜测他的神话王国的位置。

They stayed in the club when other mapmakers got kicked out of the branded map game.

当其他地图制作者被踢出品牌地图游戏时，他们留在了俱乐部。

At the edges, mapmakers would often inscribe, " here be lions " to indicate unknown lands, not " here be dragons" like I've alwaysbelieved.

边缘处地图的绘制者经常会写着他们会用" 这儿是狮群" 表示未知的土地，而不是我们一直认为的" 这是龙群" 。

Even now, when mapmakers have access to tools such as satellite images, there is still no objective and universally accepted map, argues Mr Brotton.

布洛顿先生认为，即便是现在，虽然绘图者有卫星影像这样的工具可用，准确的、可被普遍接受的地图依然难觅。

They don't exist, but they were put on the official Michigan mapin the Ohio section at the bottomby mischievous mapmakers in the '70s.

它们并不存在，但在 70 年代，顽皮的地图制作者将它们放在俄亥俄州部分的官方密歇根地图底部。

At the edges, mapmakers would often inscribe, " here be lions" to indicate unknown lands… not " here be dragons" like I've always believed.

在边缘，制图师通常会题写“这里有狮子”来指示未知的土地… … 而不是像我一直相信的“这里有龙” 。

Though the mapmakers had never been to Africa, they attempted to depict the continent based on the accounts of the traders who'd been there.

尽管制图者从未去过非洲，但他们试图根据到过那里的商人的描述来描绘这片大陆。

What is farthest away may not be a question that we can answer, however, we're driven by the same curiosity that drove those very first mapmakers, thousands of years ago.

虽然我们不能知道宇宙最远得地方在哪，但是我们像千年之前第一批绘制地图的人那样被相同的好奇心驱动着。

Though the words themselves were actually quite rare, the sentiment was common among medieval European mapmakers, who often scrawled dragons and sea monsters over terra incognita— blank spots on the map.

尽管这些词本身实际上很少见，但这种情绪在中世纪的欧洲制图师中很常见，他们经常在未知的土地上潦草地画上龙和海怪——地图上的空白点。