Ptolemy’s ancient work was rediscovered, and new maps were drawn based on his thousand-year-old calculations. Indeed, Christopher Columbus’ voyage to America was partly due to Ptolemy—and ...

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 ...

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.

Humans have made maps for untold thousands of years. They’re among the oldest modes of communication, predating written language. But, as cartographer Norman Thrower writes in Maps and Civilization: ...

A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements. Now a team of researchers have cracked the ...

An image of the map has been given to People's Collection Wales, external and Wikimedia Commons, external. Ptolemy was a Greek-Roman astronomer and geographer who established the use of longitude ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...

From Ptolemy to GPS, the Brief History of Maps We now have the whole world in our hands, but how did we get here? Clive Thompson . July 2017. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

One of the earliest surviving maps of the British Isles is made available for the public to view online by the National Library of Wales. National Library shares 2nd Century Ptolemy map image ...