Ptolemy's Geography and Maps

Michael Lahanas

Γεωγραφία Kλαυδίου Πτολεμαίου

He also was the first discoverer of the gnomon; and he placed some in Lacedaemon on the sun-dials there, as Favorinus says in his Universal History, and they showed the solstices and the equinoxes; he also made clocks. He was the first person, too, who drew a map of the earth and sea, and he also made a globe; Diogenes Laertius, Life of Anaximander

Among the oldest drawings that could be considered as maps are those in Catal Hyük 6200 BC in Anatolia, Turkey, where wall paintings were discovered in 1963. Some other image,

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Preliminary version

J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones, , Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-01042-0