Who was the first person to draw the map of the earth?

Answer 1

The Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks and Chinese created maps of their local area in the world. However, it wasn't until the 1500s when Gerardus Mercator published the first known map of the entire earth, including the Americas but not Australia, which was not mapped until the 1600s first by the Dutch and then by Captain James Cook in the late 1700s. So, the first complete maps of the earth probably starting being published by the late 1700s and early 1800s.

The Ancient Greeks were the first to theorize that the earth was a globe and not flat, but they had limited knowledge of the surface of the earth and therefore, could only make incomplete maps of the earth. Pythagoras was one of the first in the 6th century B.C. , and then there was Aristotle about 350 B.C. Ptolemy created a map around 140 A.D. that included most of Europe, the northern half of Africa and the Middle East as far as India. So, you could see from the map, much of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, however, the Americas, Australia, eastern Asia, and Antarctica had not been mapped or visited extensively by the Europeans yet.

It wasn't until over 1400 years later, after Europeans had set sail to and discovered the rest of the world that Gerardus Mercator created and published the first truly global map of the earth in 1569.

Mercator would have been my first answer, remembered for his chart of the world. His son published some of his fathers works, including an improved map of the entire earth, after Mercators death. Mercator was also known for making some of the first globes. The Europeans were beginning to sail to other continents in the late 1400s and were beginning to realize in general that the earth was round and not flat. So, by the 1500s, Mercator and others began creating the first maps of the entire earth.

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

The first known maps are of the heavens, not the earth. Dots dating to 16,500 BC found on the walls of the Lascaux caves map out part of the night sky, including the three bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair (the Summer Triangle asterism); as well as the Pleiades star cluster. The Cuevas de El Castillo in Spain contain a dot map of the Corona Borealis constellation dating from 12,000 BCE. [edit] If you can recognize the star patterns, then they are obviously drawn to scale... althought the ancients didn't know what the scale was, they were making a scaled star map. If you want to find the first intentional scale map, just check the link... it was some chinese dude.

Answer 4

The earliest known map is currently a wall painting of the ancient Turkish city of Çatal Hüyük which has been dated to the late 7th millennium BCE.[2] Other known maps of the ancient world include the Minoan “House of the Admiral” wall painting from c. 1600 BCE showing a seaside community in an oblique perspective, and an engraved map of the holy Babylonian city of Nippur, from the Kassite period (14th – 12th centuries BCE).[3] The ancient Greeks and Romans created maps beginning with Anaximander in the 6th century BC. In ancient China, although geographical literature spans back to the 5th century BC, the drawing of true geographical maps were not begun in earnest until the first half of the Han Dynasty (202 BC-202 AD), largely with the works of Prince Liu An (179 BC-122 BC).

Answer 5

The Ancient Egypteans are known for creating the first model of the earth, then there was Ptolemeus. Of course, "scientists" like Giordano Bruno and Copernicus completely crashed the theory that Earth is flat. But if you are talking about the navigation maps, probably the first ones as we are used to were drawn by the Portguese, although the earlier version were probably done by the Vikings. However, i have reasons to beliebe that the earliest people to circumspect the Earth were the Chinese...so, there you go.

Answer 6

John L. Morton wrote a book titled STRATA: How William Smith Drew the First Map of the Earth in 1801 and inspired the Science of Geology. Check it out.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Gerardus Mercator

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Unknown.