Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

According to Oxford-based Benjamin Wardhaugh, a historian of mathematics, “We don’t know if he was an Alexandrian born or an immigrant (like Ptolemy) from somewhere else in the Greek world.” Euclid of ...

Geographia of Claudius Ptolemy (ca. AD 100 - AD 170). The 1482 Ulm edition. Four new regional maps that show geographical knowledge gathered after the time of Ptolemy were also added to this edition.

I have always loved maps. My favorite books as a child featured maps. My first forays into backpacking introduced me to getting lost and the beauty of topographic maps to find myself. In my adult life ...

The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience the world around us.

Helldivers 2 dives to Super Earth Leaked by ever-active dataminer IronS1ghts, Arrowhead has added Super Earth maps to the game with individual regions not seen in other maps.

IronS1ghts, a well-known dataminer on all things Helldivers 2, has unearthed evidence of the first Super Earth map for Arrowhead Game Studio ‘s celebrated bug shooter. The Super Earth maps ...

In a significant development in the field of cartography, Ptolemy was the first to apply latitude and longitude coordinates to map countries in his work Geographia. However, after Ptolemy, there was a ...

Humans have been captivated by the mysteries of the Earth and stars for centuries, documenting their explorations in stunning and varied ways. Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy —known as the ...

Ptolemy's original 2,000-year-old treatise in Greek was overwritten with an unrelated text in Latin. Using modern imaging, scientists were able to uncover a hidden manual.