10 Interesting Fact About The History of Cartography

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• The history of cartography starts from a map made on the walls of the cave in Germany around 16,000 BC.
• The first map made by humans is a road map carved on a stone on the streets of ancient Egypt in the 14th century BC.
• The first map describing the earth as a ball is an ancient map of Babylon in the 6th century BC.
• In 150 BC, Greek Cartograf, Ptolemeus, wrote a geographical work that included an accurate map of the earth that was known at the time.
• The first world map that is considered accurately made by Ptolemeus in the 2nd century BC.
• In the 13th century, Muhammad Al-Idrisi created the biggest world map ever made.
• In the 15th century, Johannes Werner from Germany created a map of the first earth map projection using a computer.
• In the 17th century, British cartographer, John Speed, developed the first road map in England.
• Two centuries later, Joseph Nicholas de Lisle created maps that were considered as the standard for world maps.
• In the 19th century, French cartographer, Pierre-Marie-Charles de Foncquevillers, created a map that uses a coordinate system.