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But from the 1500s onward, European sailing maps, inspired by Ptolemy’s grid design, attempted to produce a fixed, unchanging – and European – picture of the world.

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

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

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The Sulaiman-Too Mountains in Kyrgyzstan are another candidate site. Credit: A. Savin / Wikimedia Commons However, he only mentions its coordinates once, placing it at latitude 43 and longitude 135 in ...

Around 1300, scholars in Europe revisited this thinking and began reproducing manuscripts of Ptolemy’s text and maps. In 1406, his Greek text was translated into Latin, making it more accessible ...

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