John Sailors
@johnsailors.bsky.social
Writer, editor. History, English language, fiction. Enrique of Malacca's Voyage. JohnJaySailors.com. EFA.
Farmer tilling soil. Detail from the map Carta hydrographica y chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas, 1734.
January 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Farmer tilling soil. Detail from the map Carta hydrographica y chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas, 1734.
War elephant placed above the Indian subcontinent, Catalan Atlas, c. 1375. Possibly by Cresques Abraham, a Jewish book illuminator and maker of of mappae mundi and compasses.
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January 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
War elephant placed above the Indian subcontinent, Catalan Atlas, c. 1375. Possibly by Cresques Abraham, a Jewish book illuminator and maker of of mappae mundi and compasses.
#History
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January 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
A proper image for Jan. 20, 2025.
January 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
A proper image for Jan. 20, 2025.
Serpents of the South Pacific, detail from a map by Michael Van Langren, 1595.
January 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Serpents of the South Pacific, detail from a map by Michael Van Langren, 1595.
A new type of ransomware is infecting computers around the world, basically forcing users to pay a fee--protection money?--just to run a lesser version of their current operating system.
January 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
A new type of ransomware is infecting computers around the world, basically forcing users to pay a fee--protection money?--just to run a lesser version of their current operating system.
Frightened sea creature, detail from a 1570 map by Paolo Forlani.
January 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Frightened sea creature, detail from a 1570 map by Paolo Forlani.
Cutout from a 1595 map by the Dutch cartographer Arnold Floris van Langren, with Taiwan top left, Ternate top right, and lower down Canton to Brunei.
January 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Cutout from a 1595 map by the Dutch cartographer Arnold Floris van Langren, with Taiwan top left, Ternate top right, and lower down Canton to Brunei.
When you leave twenty windows open on your computer to continue a project the next day … and overnight Windows reboots to update without asking …
Detail from a 1562 map of the Americas by Diego Gutiérrez and engraver Hieronymus Cock.
Detail from a 1562 map of the Americas by Diego Gutiérrez and engraver Hieronymus Cock.
January 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
When you leave twenty windows open on your computer to continue a project the next day … and overnight Windows reboots to update without asking …
Detail from a 1562 map of the Americas by Diego Gutiérrez and engraver Hieronymus Cock.
Detail from a 1562 map of the Americas by Diego Gutiérrez and engraver Hieronymus Cock.
Mermaids off Guam, combing their hair with seashell mirrors. From Abraham Ortelius's "Indiae Orientalis" (c. 1570).
January 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Mermaids off Guam, combing their hair with seashell mirrors. From Abraham Ortelius's "Indiae Orientalis" (c. 1570).
Microsoft, screwing over and fleecing its users for 30 years.
December 19, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Microsoft, screwing over and fleecing its users for 30 years.
Well-guarded front door.
December 4, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Well-guarded front door.
Duck versus dog.
Kudos to the No. 1 Oregon Ducks, who beat the Washington Huskies tonight 49-21—a West Coast team heading (again) to a newly designed playoff series. (Duck by the Antwerp cartographer, engraver, and publisher Gerard de Jode, aka Petrus de Jode, c. 1511–1591.)
Kudos to the No. 1 Oregon Ducks, who beat the Washington Huskies tonight 49-21—a West Coast team heading (again) to a newly designed playoff series. (Duck by the Antwerp cartographer, engraver, and publisher Gerard de Jode, aka Petrus de Jode, c. 1511–1591.)
December 1, 2024 at 7:17 AM
Duck versus dog.
Kudos to the No. 1 Oregon Ducks, who beat the Washington Huskies tonight 49-21—a West Coast team heading (again) to a newly designed playoff series. (Duck by the Antwerp cartographer, engraver, and publisher Gerard de Jode, aka Petrus de Jode, c. 1511–1591.)
Kudos to the No. 1 Oregon Ducks, who beat the Washington Huskies tonight 49-21—a West Coast team heading (again) to a newly designed playoff series. (Duck by the Antwerp cartographer, engraver, and publisher Gerard de Jode, aka Petrus de Jode, c. 1511–1591.)
Lithograph of Hong Kong Island in the mid-1840s by Frank Marryat, a Royal Navy midshipman, possibly from a sketch made aboard ship in the harbor. Compare the recent photo (TripAdvisor) shot from Tsim Sha Tsui of Central and part of the Western district.
November 29, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Lithograph of Hong Kong Island in the mid-1840s by Frank Marryat, a Royal Navy midshipman, possibly from a sketch made aboard ship in the harbor. Compare the recent photo (TripAdvisor) shot from Tsim Sha Tsui of Central and part of the Western district.
Lithograph of Hong Kong Island shortly after the British took possession, from Frank Marryat's book "Borneo and the Malay Archipelago," published in 1848.
November 28, 2024 at 6:10 AM
Lithograph of Hong Kong Island shortly after the British took possession, from Frank Marryat's book "Borneo and the Malay Archipelago," published in 1848.
Fra Mauro clock.
November 25, 2024 at 2:45 AM
Fra Mauro clock.
Ships from two maps by the cartographer Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598). The first is the Victoria, which completed the unplanned first circumnavigation (1522) more than a year after Magellan's death in the Visayas.
November 20, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Ships from two maps by the cartographer Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598). The first is the Victoria, which completed the unplanned first circumnavigation (1522) more than a year after Magellan's death in the Visayas.
Detail from a 1562 map by Diego Gutiérrez and engraver Hieronymus Cock, titled in English "The Americas, or A New and Precise Description of the Fourth Part of the World." Flying fish were described by sailors charting the Patagon and coast and strait.
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November 15, 2024 at 6:32 AM
Detail from a 1562 map by Diego Gutiérrez and engraver Hieronymus Cock, titled in English "The Americas, or A New and Precise Description of the Fourth Part of the World." Flying fish were described by sailors charting the Patagon and coast and strait.
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Just got an email from Microsoft.
Coming soon: The 30-year anniversary of Windows 95 and three decades of Microsoft regularly pissing off its users.
Coming soon: The 30-year anniversary of Windows 95 and three decades of Microsoft regularly pissing off its users.
November 13, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Just got an email from Microsoft.
Coming soon: The 30-year anniversary of Windows 95 and three decades of Microsoft regularly pissing off its users.
Coming soon: The 30-year anniversary of Windows 95 and three decades of Microsoft regularly pissing off its users.
For a project I'm working on: A comparison of a 1628 map first published by Jodocus Hondius with satellite imagery. Notice the accuracy of the 1628 version at the (Atlantic) entrance to the Magellan Strait, with first one, then a second narrow—features described by Pigafetta a century earlier.
November 13, 2024 at 5:22 AM
For a project I'm working on: A comparison of a 1628 map first published by Jodocus Hondius with satellite imagery. Notice the accuracy of the 1628 version at the (Atlantic) entrance to the Magellan Strait, with first one, then a second narrow—features described by Pigafetta a century earlier.
My mother and I read "The Tao of Poo" a lot of years back. I still have both copies.
May 19, 2024 at 2:48 AM
My mother and I read "The Tao of Poo" a lot of years back. I still have both copies.