But Ptolemy thought the world was 30 percent smaller than it actually is; ... World maps became increasingly accurate. ... When Rumsey first started collecting and displaying maps in the 1970s, ...

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

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 ...

When Columbus was pondering how to reach Cathay, he had in his hands a world map drawn by the first century Greek geographer Ptolemy – a map which showed clearly that the world was round. The ...

A Renaissance map, based on Ptolemy's coordinates. Printed by Nicolaus Germanus in Ulm in 1482. (National Library of Sweden) Review by Lorraine Berry When Apollo 8 launched Dec. 21, 1968, the ...

Martin Waldseemüller's map incorporated recent reports from explorer Amerigo Vespucci — and gave credit where it was due.

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 ...

Marinus also compiled information on the lands known in his time. He was the first to include China in Roman maps and to divide the world into time zones, a visionary idea that anticipated concepts ...

Frustrated with the new Apple maps? You could do worse, as an exhibit of the earliest printed world maps in Victoria, B.C. demonstrates. Of course, the ancient map makers had an excuse, what with ...

But Ptolemy thought the world was 30 percent smaller than it actually is; ... World maps became increasingly accurate. ... When Rumsey first started collecting and displaying maps in the 1970s, ...