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The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period.
A general map of the world by Samuel Dunn, 1794, containing star chart, map of the Solar System, map of the Moon and other features along with Earth's both hemispheres. The Vertical Perspective projection was first used by the German map publisher Matthias Seutter in 1740.
From prehistory through the Middle Ages, creating an accurate world map would have been impossible because less than half of Earth's coastlines and only a small fraction of its continental interiors were known to any culture.
Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish cartographer whose most important innovation was a map, embodying what was later known as the Mercator projection, on which parallels and meridians are rendered as straight lines spaced so as to produce at any point an accurate ratio of latitude to longitude.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Three thousand years ago, our ancestors began a long experiment in figuring out how they fit into the world, by inventing a bold new tool: the map. One of the oldest surviving maps is,...
Sep 6, 2024 · Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map World map by Martin Waldseemüller, 1507. (more) The first realistic world map is credited to Ptolemy , who created it in the 2nd century ce .
Feb 19, 2024 · Anaximander, a Greek philosopher, is credited with creating one of the first maps of the world, albeit a highly speculative one. Eratosthenes, another Greek scholar, made significant strides by calculating the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy for his time.
