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Possible rendering of Anaximander's world map [66] Both Strabo and Agathemerus (later Greek geographers) claim that, according to the geographer Eratosthenes, Anaximander was the first to publish a map of the world. The map probably inspired the Greek historian Hecataeus of Miletus to draw a more accurate version.
Anaximander (died c. 546 BCE) is credited with having created one of the first maps of the world, [8] which was circular in form and showed the known lands of the world grouped around the Aegean Sea at the center. This was all surrounded by the ocean.
Modern rendering of Anaximander's 6th century BC world map Ptolemy's 150 CE world map (as redrawn in the 15th century) Anaximander, Greek Anatolia (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world; Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer
{{Information |Description= {{en|Possibly what the lost first map of the world by Anaximander looked like, based on an image found in ''An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy'' by John Mansley Robinson.
For constructing his world map, Anaximander is considered by many to be the first mapmaker. [22]: 23 Little is known about the map, which has not survived. Hekatæus of Miletus (550–475 BC) produced another map fifty years later that he claimed was an improved version of the map of his illustrious predecessor.
Possible rendering of Anaximander's world map. Anaximander (c. 610 BC–c. 546 BC) was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia. He joined the Milesian school and studied the teachings of its master Thales. He succeeded him and became the second master of that school where he counted Anaximenes and Pythagoras amongst his ...
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, ... Hypothetical reconstruction of the world map of Anaximander (610–546 BC)
He also laid down many of the astronomical and mathematical rules that would allow geography to be studied scientifically. His successor Anaximander is the first person known to have attempted to create a scale map of the known world and to have introduced the gnomon to Ancient Greece. Reconstruction of the map of Hecataeus of Miletus.