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.

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.

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 ...

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 first map of Ireland, created back in 140AD was drawn up by Claudius Ptolemy, a man who had never visited the country. According to history, the mathematician, astronomer, astrologer ...

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 ...

Maps have seen massive changes over the centuries. From rough, inaccurate maps thousands of years ago to Google Earth today, maps have changed in amazing ways. An article from The Atlantic ...

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 ...