THE HISTORY OF MAPPING

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THE HISTORY OF MAPPING

 


ome form of mapmaking-whether scribbles in sand, measurements on chiseled stone, or sacred geography in songs and art-is common to all cul tures. The earliest surviving maps and charts come from ancient Babylonia and Egypt. By the third mil lennium B.C., both possessed the necessary mathematical and drafting skills and the bureaucracy for surveying and mapping. Babylonian cartography was mostly practical, whereas Egyp tian maps rendered mythical lands and routes to the afterlife.


EARLY MAPPING

CIRCA 2300 B.C. Earliest known map created in Iraq

1500 B.C.-A.D. 1000 Polynesians navigate Pacific Ocean

A.D. 1136

Map of China with grid system engraved on stone

1420-1460 Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal advances navigation science

1540-1552 Münster maps continents

1569

Mercator introduces world projection

1570

Ortelius makes portable atlas


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