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Index of Cartographic Images
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Time Chart of Ancient Cartography
Slide # |
Title: |
Cartographer: |
Date: |
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Town Plan from Catal Hyük (redrawing) |
James Mellaart |
Modern (6200 B.C.) | |
Town Plan from Catal Hyük |
unknown |
6200 B.C. | |
Town Plan from Catal Hyük |
unknown |
6200 B.C. | |
Clay tablet from Ga-Sur |
unknown |
2300 B.C. | |
Mesopotamian City Plan, Nippur |
unknown |
1500 BC | |
Turin Papyrus |
unknown |
1300 B.C. | |
Turin Papyrus (interpretive drawing) |
unknown |
modern (1300 B.C.) | |
Babylonian clay tablet, 600 B.C. |
unknown |
600 B.C. | |
Babylonian clay tablet, Imago Mundi symbol |
unknown |
modern (600 B.C.) | |
Time Chart of Ancient Cartography |
Erwin Raisz |
modern | |
Reconstruction of Homer's view of the earth |
(Homer) |
modern (900 B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the Frame of the Greek world |
(Homer, Anaximander and Hecataeus) |
modern | |
Frame of the Greek world |
(generic) |
modern | |
Greek View of the World |
(Reinaud) |
modern | |
Four Frames of the Greek world |
(Homer, Hecateus, Eratosthenes, Ptolemy) |
modern | |
Reconstruction of the World |
(Anaximenes of Miletus) |
modern (6th century B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the World |
(Hecataeus) |
modern (6th century B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the World |
(Hecataeus) |
modern (6th century B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the World |
(Herodotus) |
modern (ca. 450 B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the World |
(Herodotus) |
modern (ca. 450 B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the World |
(Herodotus) |
modern (ca. 450 B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the Ephorus' Parallelogram |
(Ephorus) |
modern (ca. 350 B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the World map |
(Dicaearchus of Messana) |
modern (300 B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the World map |
(Eratosthenes of Cyrene) |
moderrn (194 B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the World map |
(Eratosthenes of Cyrene) |
moderrn (194 B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the Crate's Globe |
(Crates of Mallos) |
modern (180-150 B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the World map |
(Posidonius) |
1630 (150-130 B.C.) | |
Reconstruction of the World map |
(Strabo) |
modern (18 A.D.) | |
Reconstruction of the World map |
(Strabo) |
modern (18 A.D.) | |
Reconstruction of the World map |
(Pomponius Mela) |
modern (ca. 40 A.D.) | |
Reconstruction of the World map |
Petrus Bertius |
1628 (ca, 40 A.D.) | |
Reconstruction of the World map |
(DionysiusPeriegetes) |
modern (124 A.D.) | |
Reconstruction of the Orbis Terrarum |
(Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa) |
modern (20 A.D.) | |
Roman fresco globe |
unknown |
50 A.D. | |
Ptolemaic world map |
Johan Scotus |
1505 | |
Ptolemaic world map |
unknown |
12/13th century | |
Ptolemaic world map in the Liber Chronicarum |
Hartmann Schedel |
1493 | |
Ptolemy on Waldseemüller's 1507 map |
Martin Waldseemüller |
1507 | |
Ptolemy's conic projection |
(Ptolemy) |
modern | |
Ptolemaic world map |
Agathodaemon |
13th century | |
Ptolemy's regional divisions |
(Ptolemy) |
modern | |
Ptolemy's modified spherical projection |
Girolamo Ruscelli |
1561 | |
Ptolemy's map superimposed on Mercator |
modern | ||
Ptolemy's world map |
Ulm Edition |
1482 | |
Ptolemy regional map, Tabula Asia |
(Ptolemy) |
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Tabula Peutingeriana |
Castorius ? |
100 A.D. | |
Tabula Peutingeriana |
Abraham Ortelius |
12th century MS/1598 | |
Tabula Peutingeriana |
Abraham Ortelius |
12th century MS/1598 | |
Tabula Peutingeriana: Greece, Crete, Turkey |
Abraham Ortelius |
12th century MS/1598 | |
Tabula Peutingeriana: Arabia |
Abraham Ortelius |
12th century MS/1598 | |
Tabula Peutingeriana: Greece, Crete |
unknown |
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Tabula Peutingeriana: Rhodes |
Abraham Ortelius |
12th century MS/1598 | |
Tabula Peutingeriana: Palestine |
Abraham Ortelius |
12th century MS/1598 | |
Tabula Peutingeriana: Mesopotamia |
Abraham Ortelius |
12th century MS/1598 | |
Tabula Peutingeriana: Rome |
Abraham Ortelius |
12th century MS/1598 | |
Tabula Peutingeriana: Taprobana, Asia |
Abraham Ortelius |
12th century MS/1598 | |
Madaba Mosaic Map: Palestine |
unknown |
ca. 565 A.D. | |
Madaba Mosaic: Jerusalem |
unknown |
ca. 565 |