Map Reading Room at the Library of Congress Ancient World Maps The Peutinger Map Virtual Mappa: Digital Editions of Early Medieval Maps of the World,...

A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered...

Ptolemy's work probably originally came with maps, but none have been discovered. Instead, the present form of the map was reconstructed from Ptolemy's coordinates...

extant historical maps. Babylonian Map of the World (flat-earth diagram on a clay tablet, c. 600 BC) Tabula Rogeriana (1154) Psalter world map (1260) Tabula...

Maps have been one of the most important human inventions, allowing humans to explain and navigate their way. When and how the earliest maps were made...

way through the world. The earliest surviving maps include cave paintings and etchings on tusk and stone. Later came extensive maps produced in ancient...

own map show how freely he borrowed from these maps and from his own 1538 world map and his 1541 globe.[citation needed] In addition to published maps and...

Compared to earlier portolan charts, the map shows gradual improvement. Portuguese source maps would have been similar to surviving maps like the 1502...

States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history...

Zaccagnini has argued that the design of the Babylonian map of the world may have lived on in the T and O maps of the European Middle Ages. Babylon Sippar List...

represented as the center of the world on medieval maps, a trend which rose to prominence from the mid-12th century through the early-14th century, but was never...

known world may refer to: the extent of geographic knowledge of a given culture at a given historical period, see history of geography Early world maps lists...

development of early Chinese cartography experienced three phrases: primitive map, classical map, and survey map. The primitive maps were simple maps, still steeped...

topological map is a type of diagram that has been simplified so that only vital information remains and unnecessary detail has been removed. These maps lack...

Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive...

locations mentioned in the Bible, and to provide maps for Christian pilgrimage. The earliest surviving maps of the classical tradition derive from the scientific...

The earliest cartographic depictions of Europe are found in early world maps. In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe...

King Manuel I of Portugal. Cartography of Latin America Early world maps Windrose network Map of Juan de la Cosa Gaspar, Joaquim Alves (2012). "Blunders...

greatest significance of the star maps by Su Song is that they represent the oldest existent star maps in printed form. Early forms of cartography of India...

maps produced in Majorca, an important center of map making at the time. The map is an assemblage of two different charts, one covering the Old World...

extensively. European maps become more accurate with the Age of Exploration and Portuguese India from the 16th century. The first modern maps were produced by...

Included were early chorochromatic and flow maps, and possibly the first proportional point symbol and dasymetric maps. Another example of early thematic mapping...

Whereas most known early maps of Africa were prepared in the framework of the colonial enterprise, some indigenous maps have been recently uncovered, particularly...

icosahedron. The resulting map is heavily interrupted in order to reduce shape and size distortion compared to other world maps, but the interruptions are...

"Leonardo da Vinci’s World Map", in which he provides examples of derivative maps in a similar projection to da Vinci's. The map was originally documented...

fixing the imprecision of the country's maps. At the time, distances between settlements to be portrayed on maps were often estimated by the time of the...

and gnosticism. Maps portal World portal Early world maps – List of early depictions of the world Fantasy map – Study and creation of maps of imagined places...

of Asia on a map, or to depictions of the world by cartographers from Asia. Depictions of portions of Asia have existed on maps as early as the 6th century...

found on other ancient maps. Finally, the engravings follow the precise borders of the ostrakon itself, which suggests that the map was made after the pot...

longitude began to appear on maps. they made maritime activities such as exploration or conquest less time- and resource-consuming. Maps were also used as a method...