first man who draws world map?

Answer 1

Gerardus Mercator from Flanders did the first world map in the early 16th century
The first map of the entire globe was by Rosselli in 1508

Answer 2

The first world map comes from Babylon (in Modern day Iraq) and has been dated to 600 - 500 BC. The clay tablet on which it is drawn is now in the British Library and is in good condition.

Answer 3

ah, difficult question. there's a great book by Gavin Menzies called 1427 (?) which provides a rich amount of information showing that the Chinese treasure fleets were sailing, surveying, trading, and in some instances settling parts of the globe that Western civilisations were not to visit until the later part of the 15th century.

The Chinese fleets under Zheng He, indeed most of Chinese civilsation, was far in advance of anything developed in Europe, including the use of gun powder & arms, shipping, science, trade, arts, and exploration. Sadly, records of the journeys, the ships themselves, and China's up to then expansion in world trade was followed by a deliberate policy of isolationism - as passionately as they had ventured and discovered, they turned inward and arrested their development.

Basically, when great Western explorers sailed across the seas and "discovered" the new world and other areas, they were using maps created by the Chinese. Recently, DNA evidence has lent a lot of credence to Menzie's work, with Chinese DNA found in both South & North American Indians, as well as people in Africa.

Answer 4

Dicaearchus
Dicaearchus (also Dicearchos, Dicearchus or Dikæarchus, Greek Δικαιαρχος; circa 350 BC – circa 285 BC) was a Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and author. He was born in Messine (also Messana, Messene; present-day Messina). Dicaearchus was Aristotle's student in Lyceum. Very little of his work remains extant. He made geometric constructions of a hyperbola and a parabola and worked mainly in the field of cartography, where he was among the first to use geographical coordinates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicaearchus

Hipparchus (Greek Ἳππαρχος) (ca. 190 BC – ca. 120 BC) was a Greek, astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period.

Hipparchus was born in Nicaea (now Iznik, Turkey), and probably died on the island of Rhodes. He is known to have been active at least from 147 BC to 127 BC. Hipparchus is considered the greatest astronomical observer, and by some the greatest astronomer of antiquity. He was the first Greek to develop quantitative and accurate models for the motion of the Sun and Moon. For this he made use of the observations and knowledge accumulated over centuries by the Chaldeans from Babylonia. He was also the first to compile a trigonometric table, which allowed him to solve any triangle. With his solar and lunar theories and his numerical trigonometry, he was probably the first to develop a reliable method to predict solar eclipses. His other achievements include the discovery of precession, the compilation of the first star catalogue of the western world, and probably the invention of the astrolabe. Claudius Ptolemaeus, three centuries later depended much on Hipparchus. However, his synthesis of astronomy superseded Hipparchus's work: although Hipparchus wrote at least fourteen books, only his commentary on the popular astronomical poem by Aratus has been preserved by later copyists. As a consequence, we know comparatively little about Hipparchus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus_%28astronomer%29
Dicaearchus (Greece, circa 350 B.C. - circa 285 B.C.), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
Hipparchus, (Greece, 190 B.C. - 120 B.C.), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
Isidore of Seville (Spain, 560 - 636)
Ptolemy, (Ptolemaic Egypt, Greece, circa 85 - circa 165), astronomer, cartographer, geographer'
Al-Idrisi (Sicily, 1100-1166) Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartographer

Answer 5

I think you should search in world map website. It will help you more.

Answer 6

THERE ARE CLAY "WORLD MAPS" FROM THE CITY STATES OF ASSYRIA ,BABYLON,NINEVEH,CHALDEA AND SUMERIA!!!THESE HAVE LENDS AND DIRECTIONS UPON THEM IN CUNIEFORM ALONG WITH A SORT OF COMPASS QUADRANT!!!

Answer 7

I don't know but if you keep looking on the internet you will eventually find it

Answer 8

If I remember my history I think it was Bartholmew.