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Here be dragons – Phrase used on maps to indicate uncharted areas; History of Cartography Project – Publishing project in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Early modern Iberian (Spanish and Portuguese) cartography
The captions demonstrate clearly the multiple functions of these large medieval maps, conveying a mass of information on Biblical subjects and general history, in addition to geography. Jerusalem is drawn at the centre of the circle, east is on top, showing the Garden of Eden in a circle at the edge of the world (1).
Muslim scholars made advances to the map-making traditions of earlier cultures, [1] explorers and merchants learned in their travels across the Old World (Afro-Eurasia). [1] Islamic geography had three major fields: exploration and navigation, physical geography, and cartography and mathematical geography. [1]
A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second map projection. The translation into Latin and dissemination of Geography in Europe, in the beginning of the 15th century, marked the rebirth of scientific cartography, after more than a millennium of stagnation.
Geography and Maps, an Illustrated Guide, by the staff of the US Library of Congress. The history of cartography at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland Antique Maps by Carl Moreland and David Bannister - complete text of the book, with information both on mapmaking and on mapmakers, including short ...
An Abridgment of the History at the Human Race. A continuation of ibn al-Athir's The Complete History through 1329. Taqwim al-Buldan (A Sketch of the Countries). A text on geography that includes descriptions of the major cities of the world and contains the first known reference to the circumnavigator's paradox in which travelers gain or lose ...
Pages in category "History of cartography" ... Egerton 2803 maps; Erythraean Sea; F. Freducci map; G. Geography and cartography in the medieval Islamic world; H.
'Geography' derives from the Greek γεωγραφία – geographia, [1] literally "Earth-writing", that is, description or writing about the Earth. The first person to use the word geography was Eratosthenes (276–194 BC). However, there is evidence for recognizable practices of geography, such as cartography, prior to the use of the term.