World maps assuming a spherical earth first appear in the hellenistic period the developments of greek geography during this time notably by eratosthenes and posidonius culminated in the roman era with ptolemy s world map 2nd century ce. The ancients were preoccupied with geography and the first attempts at drawing maps date back to 8 000 b c when the people of babylon used maps created with surveying techniques.

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Who made the first map. The mapmakers martin waldseemüller and matthias ringmann named the continent after italian explorer amerigo vespucci who they incorrectly believed had discovered it. What we may presume is that he portrayed land and sea in a map form. Instead the present form of the map was reconstructed from ptolemy s coordinates by byzantine monks under the direction of maximus planudes shortly after 1295.

V venkata rao ahmedabad. Anaximander was the first ancient greek to draw a map of the known world. A scarcity of archaeological and written evidence prevents us from giving any assessment of his map.

Ptolomey first drew maps of the world using latitudes and longitudes and conic projection. It is known as the first map to use the name america. The first greek to draw a world map using the assumption of a spherical earth was eratosthenes.

The entire map of the earth was given thousands of years ago in the mahabharata. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries bce still based on the flat earth paradigm. Anaximander a greek philosopher who lived in miletus in the 6th century is credited with the invention of the first map.

In 150 ad he produced a six volume atlas called geographia containing several maps of the world known during his time. The waldseemüller map or universalis cosmographia universal cosmography is a printed wall map of the world by german cartographer martin waldseemüller originally published in april 1507. The first geographical map of the earth was created by maharshi veda vyasa the writer of mahabharata.

Ptolemy s work probably originally came with maps but none have been discovered. It is for this reason that he is considered by many to be the first mapmaker. The earliest known maps are related to the sky and date back to 16 500 b c.