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 4^th 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_(Ptolemy)

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.