History of Cartography
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Updated: 21 Nov 2018
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Created byJessica Stephens
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6700 BCE: map of Catal Hyuk3000 BCE: Babylonian clay tablets3000 BCE: first map of the moon600 BCE: map of Babylonian empire600 BCE: Pythagoras determines earth is a sphere200 BCE: Eratosthenes determines circumference of earth, establishes coordinate grid150 BCE: Hipparchus creates early system of latitude based on the sun150: Ptolemy creates world map with coordinates for 8,000 locations476: Roman Empire collapses, scientific cartography halts in Europe830: Al-Khwarizmi produces world map party based on Ptolemy's work1030: Al-Biruni develops triangulation1375: Abraham Cresques produces world map using portolan maps1569: Geradus Mercator publishes his first projection for navigation1730: sextant developed1763: John Harrison develops accurate clock for determining longitude at sea1884: International Meridian Conference chooses Greenwich as the prime meridianlate 1900s: high-quality maps produced from aerial and satellite imagery and geographic information systems, global positioning systems developed
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