This phrase can be used to describe a feature of the image on the right and many more images just like this one. However, the only known historical usage of this phrase (in its exact form) occurs in the first image. Identify the first object and the phrase.Answer: The phrase is "Here be Dragons" used to denote uncharted areas on ancient maps. Though this phrase is now rather popular, it has only appeared in this exact form (in Latin) in one historical map namely the Hurt-Lenox globe. Siddarth Pai, Iam, Raghu, Krithi, anon, Giantamoeba, Divya and Saket got it. Well done.
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is that a globe?
anyway
the phrase is hic sunt dracones
or here be dragons
used by cartographers to depict unknown areas on a map, usually which were unexplored & believed to be populated by dragons.
Terra (australis) incognita.
Cool Q (The kind that Iam likes ;).
Here be Dragons
Lenox Globe
Here be dragons
Celestial Globe-Here be dragons
Krithi
'Here be dragons' from the Lenox Globe
phrase: here be dragons
First visual is that of the Lenox globe
Here be dragons, and the lenox globe
If you are reading the Imaginarium Geographica, do tell me how it is :)
Here be dragons.
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