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The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language.
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Year 123 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paetinus and Apronius (or, less frequently, year 876 Ab urbe condita ).
The first four texts are filled with geographical and astronomical tables and calendars. The newest of the Cresques World Map is the representation of Asia, from the Caspian sea to Cathay (China), which takes into account information from Marco Polo, and Jordanus .
Ptolemy's world map, reconstituted from Ptolemy's Geography (circa 150) in the 15th century, indicating "Sinae" at the extreme right, beyond the island of "Taprobane" (Ceylon or Sri Lanka, oversized) and the "Aurea Chersonesus" (Southeast Asian peninsula).
It was specifically created in an attempt to find a good compromise to the problem of readily showing the whole globe as a flat image. [1] The Robinson projection was devised by Arthur H. Robinson in 1963 in response to an appeal from the Rand McNally company, which has used the projection in general-purpose world maps since that time. Robinson ...
Display a year or month calendar Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Year year the ordinal year number of the calendar Default current Number suggested Month month whether to display a single month instead of a whole year, and which one Default empty Example current, next, last, 1, January String suggested Show year show_year whether to display the year ...
The Gall–Peters projection of the world map. The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection.Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes.