Modern maps place the East on the right, and the West on the left.
However, we find that the opposite is true for many mediaeval maps - all of the sea charts of the alleged 14th century had the East on the left, and the West on the right.
These charts may have been used by either traders or the military fleet.
Why did the old maps, and sea charts in particular, have the East on their left, and the West on their right?
The reason may have been that the first seafarers of Europe would sail forth from the seaports located on the European coast of the Mediterranean, as well as the Black and Azov seas, and so they had to move from the North to the South.
The South was therefore in front, and the Northern coast behind them.
A ship captain sailing into the Mediterranean from the Bosporus would look at the approaching African coast.
Thus, the East was on the left, and the West was on the right.
This is why the first sea charts of both the traders and the military put the East on the left.
It made sense to put that which lay in front on the top of the map.
Thus, the way one looks at the map corresponds with the direction of one's movement.
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Scaligerian history tries to convince us that Thucydides was born in approximately 460 b.c., or 456 to 451 b.c., and died around 396 b.c..
He was a wealthy aristocrat and politician from Athens.
During the Peloponnesian war Thucydides was in command of the Athenian fleet, albeit unsuccessfully.
He was subsequently banished from Athens for 20 years.
He wrote his famous tractate during his sojourn in Thracia.
Thucydides had received amnesty near the end of the war; he returned to Athens and died shortly afterwards.
Historical tradition trusts Thucydides in his descriptions of military events, considering him an eyewitness and a participant.
Thucydides himself writes the following: "I was writing down the events witnessed by myself as well as what I had heard from others, after as meticulous a study of each fact as circumstances allowed...
I have survived the entire war...
understood it, and studied it attentively.
The Thucydides eclipse triad is a very substantial argument proving that the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides couldn't have been written earlier than the 11th century a.d. It is most improbable that the triad is a fantasy of the author, since in that case a fitting astronomical solution would most probably have been nonexistent.
It is also hard to consider the eclipses an apocryphal part of the "ancient" text, since they fit the consecutive and detailed narration incredibly well.
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by Anatoly Fomenko, the leading mathematician of our time.