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  Anaximander’s Map c. 570 BCE

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  Anaximander’s Map c. 570 BCE

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  Anaximander was a revolutionary cosmologist who introduced the concept of ‘space’ and layers of celestial bodies rather than the static dome-like ‘celestial vault’ described by his predecessors. He envisaged the earth as free-floating and unsupported but stationary ‘in the same place because of its indifference’. He conceived its shape not... More
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  Mesopotamian Map 600 BCE

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  Mesopotamian Map 600 BCE

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  Complete with cuneiform inscriptions, the map provides a representation of the world with Babylon, straddling the Euphrates, at its centre. There may have been an element of political point-scoring in the depiction, as Egypt and Persia, powerful rivals of Babylon at the time, are omitted. The known world is shown... More
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  Printing Presses in Europe c. 1450

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  Printing Presses in Europe c. 1450

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  Johannes Gutenberg was a goldsmith in Mainz, who managed, after years of painstaking experiment, to perfect the manufacture of small metal movable type. Guttenberg produced 200 copies of his revolutionary 42-line Bible in 1453. The new technology took off, and by 1461 a rival in Bamberg, Albrecht Pfister, had produced... More
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  The Gough Map c. 1360

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  The Gough Map c. 1360

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  Drawn on sheepskin, the Gough Map was donated to the Bodleian library in 1809 by the antiquarian, Richard Gough. It dates to the late 14th century (it depicts a wall around Coventry which was not constructed until 1355), and departs from the conventions of contemporary maps produced by clergy, typically... More
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  The Known World according to Eratosthenes c. 220 BCE

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  The Known World according to Eratosthenes c. 220 BCE

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  Eratosthenes was born in Cyrene (present-day Libya) under Ptolemaic rule in c. 276 BCE. He became a renowned polymath, devising a mathematical ‘sieve’ for determining prime numbers, and deducing with reasonable accuracy the circumference of the earth through latitudinal differences in shadow-length at noon. His mathematical bent influenced his Geography,... More
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  The Surveys of King and Wheeler 1867–73

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  The Surveys of King and Wheeler 1867–73

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  By 1869, four separate surveys were being conducted in the American West by an eclectic selection of leaders. Clarence King, commissioned to map around the 40th parallel, was a civilian geologist, while George Wheeler was an army engineer. Also active were John Wesley Powell, an autodidact Professor of Geology, and... More
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  The World according to Hecataeus c. 525 BCE

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  The World according to Hecataeus c. 525 BCE

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  Hecataeus was born in Miletus on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor in around 550 BCE. The city was an intellectual powerhouse at the time, and an earlier resident, Anaximander, had already produced a world map schematically similar to the version of Hecataeus. Both maps show a disc-shaped world with... More
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  The World according to Strabo

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  The World according to Strabo

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  Strabo was a native of Amasya in northwestern Asia Minor, but ventured widely in the Roman empire of the Augustan era, and his Geographia is laced with personal observation and reminiscence, laced with scorn for outlandish travellers’ tales. He borrows heavily from earlier Greek chroniclers including Artemidorus, Polybius and Poseidonius.... More