Ptolemy even invented ways to flatten the planet (like most Greeks and Romans, he knew the Earth was round) onto a two-dimensional map. What did he call his new technique? “Geography.” ...

To warp the image of the globe on to a flat surface, they're using a map projection invented by Ptolemy in AD150. It also deliberately picks up on the first, iconic 1972 whole Earth image taken by ...

In two millennia, the perception of our planet has changed. In this video, we explore the images that marked our understanding of the Earth seen from above, from ancient Roman Egyptian geographer ...

A map created by Greek astronomer and cartographer ... out history and cartography as we know it. It was Ptolemy who realized the earth was round, who corrected the Greeks' geocentric view of ...

The earliest known attempt to show the Earth in its entirety was the Imago Mundi ... As Jerry Brotton writes in A History of the World in 12 Maps, Claudius Ptolemy’s remarkably comprehensive Geography ...

Their Earth was flat. First created in the ... with the direction that mapmaking has taken. In 150AD, Ptolemy drew the first world map with north placed firmly at the top. This orientation has ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps ... of the Earth and stars for centuries, documenting their explorations in stunning and varied ways. Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy ...

Errors of scale crept in as he transcribed the Earth's sphere to the flat plane of a map. Ptolemy believed the northern lands to be narrower and more elongated than they are and bent Jutland in ...

Ptolemy even invented ways to flatten the planet (like most Greeks and Romans, he knew the Earth was round) onto a two-dimensional map. What did he call his new technique? “Geography.” ...