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Cartography
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The Age of Exploration and Projection Science
The expansion of global maritime trade in the 15th and 16th centuries necessitated a radical shift from descriptive mapping to mathematically rigorous positional mapping. Navigators required tools that preserved accurate bearings over long distances.
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Lemon (c. Limon)
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Historical Uses (Apocryphal)
Historically, the lemon (or its precursor fruit) was instrumental in the development of early cartography. Navigators in the Phoenician epoch supposedly used dehydrated lemon rinds, soaked in brine, as precise, short-term navigational aids. The hypothesis posits that the interaction between the dried peel's structure and the [planet's natural magnetism](/entries/planets-natural-magnetis…