Ptolemy’s ancient work was rediscovered, and new maps were drawn based on his thousand-year-old calculations. ... World maps became increasingly accurate. Local mapping became deeply granular.

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

This representation from Ptolemy's Geography shows "Sinae" (China) at the extreme right, beyond the island of "Taprobane" ... As Jerry Brotton writes in A History of the World in 12 Maps, Claudius ...

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

The ancient Greek astronomer and geographer Ptolemy of Alexandria drew a map of the world in 140AD, which shows the stone fort, Grianan Aileach, as one of only five Irish sites to be noted in Ireland.

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

Ptolemy's maps were the first to use longitudinal and latitudinal lines. Colton's 1852 map of the world uses the Mercator projection, cutting off the highly distorted poles.

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 ...

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 ...

Ptolemy’s ancient work was rediscovered, and new maps were drawn based on his thousand-year-old calculations. ... World maps became increasingly accurate. Local mapping became deeply granular.