<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

Cartography is cool. Where would we be without it as a species?

Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across social media channels since at least 2020, from Instagram and Reddit to ...

On most maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is about 14 times larger than ...

Unknown Artist Mizantla Mexico, 1579. Watercolor and ink on paper22.8 x 16.5 in. Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at ...

When Christopher Columbus first set foot in what's now the Bahamas, it was the lucky sum of a 1,400-year-old cartographical error and Columbus's own miscalculations ...

For decades, surveying — which consists largely of making measurements to determine the relative positions of points above, on or beneath Earth’s surface — had much higher accuracy than mapping for ...