From Ptolemy to GPS, the Brief History of Maps ... Ptolemy even invented ways to flatten the planet (like most Greeks and Romans, he knew the Earth was round) onto a two-dimensional map.

A map created by Greek astronomer and cartographer Claudius Ptolemy, from around 140 A.D., is considered to be the oldest surviving representation of Ireland. Included among his treatise ...

The earliest known attempt to show the Earth in its entirety was the Imago Mundi, or Babylonian map of the world, ... As Jerry Brotton writes in A History of the World in 12 Maps, Claudius Ptolemy’s ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

In particular, Cobo has problems with the direction that mapmaking has taken. In 150AD, Ptolemy drew the first world map with north placed firmly at the top.

For a long time, people believed that the Earth was the fixed center of the universe, with the sun and planets revolving around it—a theory proposed by Ptolemy. However, a 1532 map created by ...

The 1486 woodcut map is one of the earliest surviving copies of Ptolemy's map. ... Future Earth newsletter: Get exclusive insight on the latest climate news from Justin Rowlatt.

A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements. Now a team of researchers have cracked the ...

The map might not tell us much about Earth that we don't already know, but it's an important reminder that only a few hundred people in all of history have every seen the earth's shape to confirm ...

From Ptolemy to GPS, the Brief History of Maps. ... Ptolemy even invented ways to flatten the planet (like most Greeks and Romans, he knew the Earth was round) onto a two-dimensional map.