The Vinland Map is finally, officially acknowledged as a fake. So, who faked it?

Henry Castner and Barbara Petchenik Reconfigure Arthur Robinson’s History of Cartography

Perhaps a “hot take”

Jean Picard’s “Corrected Map of France” was not by triangulation …

I’m a bit of a purist on the matter

An overview

Key principles in the assessment of old maps

A brief summary, with references

A curious 1856 facsimile of the map of the east coast of Jave-le-grand from the 1547 Vallard Atlas