History of Cartography
Map
making start in ancient Babylonia people and it made by clay tablet. China is
thefirst to make maps in Asia. They drown lines similar to latitude and
longitude. Greek peoples more advance in map making and using compose. They
discover the world spherical shape, poles, equator and tropics. In 4th
BC Pythagoras discover the world is round and Aristotle conform it.
Pythagoras
Aristotle
Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician, geographer and
astronomer in 276 BC-194 BC. He Measure and compute the size of the Earth. The
distance between the cities was known from caravan travelling to be about
5,000 stadia. He established a final value of 700 stadia per degree, which
implies a circumference of 252,000 stadia.( http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/eratosthenes.html)
Clavdii ptole in 168 – 90 BC mapped the whole world and it
is the first Atlas book with 26 world maps.
Mercator Projection
Mercator Projection was discover by Gerard de Mercator in 1512 – 1584. He is the father of
Map in Duch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus_Mercator
In 17 century France Science Academy discover the
latitude. In 18 century due to Trigonometry, Plane table method accurate data
was gathered. In 1801 first 1: 63,360 maps were printed. 20 century Arial
photography introduce to the world.
