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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps. By Jerry Brotton. Allen Lane; 514 pages; £30. Buy from Amazon.co.uk AROUND 150AD an astronomer named Claudius Ptolemy wrote a book about how to make a ...

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, ...