How Maps, Compasses, and Circumnavigation Work

For those interested, draw your own conclusion. Just sharing information you don’t hear. I find it interesting and plausible.

How Maps, Compasses, and Circumnavigation Work on Flat Earth

There is a popular myth taught to school children (which most adults today still believe) that people in history have traveled in perfectly straight lines Eastwards or Westwards and eventually arrived back at their starting point. It is heralded as proof of the globe Earth, and claimed that hundreds of adventurers since Magellan have completed such successful circumnavigations, but the truth is that no one in history has ever set off traveling in a perfectly straight line and returned back at their starting point. All successful circumnavigations in history, whether by sea or air, have instead followed the same pattern, which is sailing or flying the most convenient route from port to port stopping for supplies and re-fueling until a complete circle has been made. Not a single sailor or aviator in history has (or could) travel only in the same one perfectly straight direction and magically arrive back where they began...