The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, ...

Most significantly, he separated himself from classic cartographers such as Ptolemy by endorsing Copernicus’s belief that Earth was part of a solar system orbiting the sun. Copernicus even gets a ...

The equator splits Earth, which is a sphere ... A 15th-century manuscript copy of the Ptolemy world map, reconstituted from Ptolemy's "Geography." In 150 AD, a Greek scholar named Claudius Ptolemy ...

Seafarers of the Marshall Islands built elaborate maps out of palm twigs and cowrie ... to the prevailing direction of the swell. Statue of Ptolemy. Charts have aided mariners ever since the ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician ... Much of medieval astronomy and geography were built on his ideas: his world map, published as part of his treatise Geography in the 2nd century ...

Even if you’re familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, much changes between the Second and Third Ages. The creatives behind The Rings of Power shared the map below to help us understand ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

This is the second installment of a two-part series about the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Read part one here. Elevation ...

IT is somewhat strange that in the article on Ptolemy in the “Penny Cyclopædia ... it is clear that that work preceded the description of the earth's surface (written, Sir E.

Of her three ancient authors, only Euclid was still being taught when I was at school – and just as well, because Ptolemy’s notion that the Indian Ocean was closed was disproved by Portuguese ...

the art and science of representing the Earth on maps, has been central to the understanding and exploration of the world ...

Sixteen centuries later Shakespeare proclaimed: "No grave upon the earth shall clip in it / a pair ... Archaeology have allowed researchers to map out the drowned portions of ancient Alexandria ...