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History of Cartography
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Jessica Stephens
⟶ Wurde aktualisiert 21 Nov 2018 ⟶
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Ereignisse
6700 BCE: map of Catal Hyuk
3000 BCE: Babylonian clay tablets
3000 BCE: first map of the moon
600 BCE: map of Babylonian empire
600 BCE: Pythagoras determines earth is a sphere
200 BCE: Eratosthenes determines circumference of earth, establishes coordinate grid
150 BCE: Hipparchus creates early system of latitude based on the sun
150: Ptolemy creates world map with coordinates for 8,000 locations
476: Roman Empire collapses, scientific cartography halts in Europe
830: Al-Khwarizmi produces world map party based on Ptolemy's work
1030: Al-Biruni develops triangulation
1375: Abraham Cresques produces world map using portolan maps
1569: Geradus Mercator publishes his first projection for navigation
1730: sextant developed
1763: John Harrison develops accurate clock for determining longitude at sea
1884: International Meridian Conference chooses Greenwich as the prime meridian
late 1900s: high-quality maps produced from aerial and satellite imagery and geographic information systems, global positioning systems developed