Quetzalcoatl: Man Or Myth?
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History Of Cartography
Maps are now such commonplace objects and geographical forms so standardized in our minds that it is hard to imagine a world in which this was not so. For example...
Inventions
Introduction In this assignment I will explaining 3 inventions throughtout the ages. The inventions are:: 1. One Ancient Invention: The Paper 2. One Non-Western I...
Liaison Between Board And Ceo In The Russian Oil Sector
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History And Its Effects On The Future
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Introduction To History Of Cartography
Western cartography starts with the revival of knowledge of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia soon after the year 1400 AD. Greek manuscript copies made in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, were brought by scholars to Italy from Constantinople and subsequently translated into Latin and widely studied. Ptolemy lived in the 2nd century AD in Egypt. He divided the world in 360 degrees and introduced a method to establish meridians and parallels and projected the round shape of the world on a flat surface. Geographers and astronomers were influenced by his work for about 1500 years. Nothing of his original work remains and we can only see his maps by the diligent work of monks who copied his works and probably made their own small contributions and interpretations as well. The coincidental invention of Gutenberg, the art of printing, made large numbers of copies possible.
Korean Culture Center. Korea through western cartographic eyes. http://www.cartography.henny-savenije.pe.kr/
