The first mathematical conventions allowed transfer of characteristics of spherical surface to a plane, ie, made first map projection. Eratosthenes (284 -. 192 BC) established first measurements of Earth. Gets the radius of earth and from that angle the length of Earth's meridian, the (very approximate to real) earth's circumference. Between him, Ptolemy and others change the conception of Greeks on Earth is not flat, but curved (adc maps).
Ptolemy (second century AD) picked up all the knowledge of his predecessors and presents the first comprehensive overview of cartographic progress to time. He published a method on the determination of coordinates based on meridians and parallels. With the work of Ptolemy began the chance to see the world in a new way: through map.
The universe in general (and the Solar System in particular) certainly offer new grounds for this work having origins immemorial. Using techniques based on satellite photography has made it possible not only to know the exact contours of country, a continent, or the world, but also ethnological, historical, statistical, hydrographic, terrain, geomorphological, geological, and economic factors that lead men to their wider environment, the planet we live knowledge.
Tours of Venetians and Genoese within Africa, and large runs of Portuguese and Spanish along the coast of continent-and later the American-gave a new boost to mapping. In Mexico, indigenous leaders, as Hernan Cortes, had geographical map drawn on paper of maguey and skins, and cotton fabrics, sisal and palm, in which he drew with vegetable colors and sometimes were given a finish with varnish.
These map reproduced itineraries and specific zones. It is believed that the Spaniards added to existing map notes in Spanish, replacing the footprint of barefoot shoe to indicate the paths that could be passable on horseback. Representation of Catholic churches by crosses symbolizing ideograms and later sources, canals and aqueducts were also added.
At the time of discovery of America highlighted the great cartographers and Diego Mendez, Juan de la Cosa, Pedro and Jorge Reinel, Sebastiano Caboto, Oronteus Finaeus, Desceliers and in a very special way, Gerardus Mercator, who in 1569 first used the canevas projection. As a curious fact is that Amerigo Vespucci, who received the great honor of naming the New World, was actually a prominent cartographer but not outstanding, and the perhaps undeserved honor that was done, was because an editor who published first map of new lands, pointed and the name was popularized in an irreversible way.
The system of Mercator projection, can considered the most important achievement in history of cartography, before the twentieth century, new techniques of aerial photography were imposed and subsequently from satellites. Amerigo Vespucci (1454 - 1512) was a sailor who worked in service of Portugal and the Crown of Castile; was considered the first European to understand that the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus formed a new continent.
For this reason, the cartographer Martin Waldseemuller used in his map of 1507 the name "America" as a designation for the New World. Vespucci began to draw map of their travels in Americas when installed in Seville (1508) in service of King Ferdinand. Both Solis, Pinzon, Juan de la Cosa and Vespucci contributed their expeditions to path of early map it is known on the American continent.
Ptolemy (second century AD) picked up all the knowledge of his predecessors and presents the first comprehensive overview of cartographic progress to time. He published a method on the determination of coordinates based on meridians and parallels. With the work of Ptolemy began the chance to see the world in a new way: through map.
The universe in general (and the Solar System in particular) certainly offer new grounds for this work having origins immemorial. Using techniques based on satellite photography has made it possible not only to know the exact contours of country, a continent, or the world, but also ethnological, historical, statistical, hydrographic, terrain, geomorphological, geological, and economic factors that lead men to their wider environment, the planet we live knowledge.
Tours of Venetians and Genoese within Africa, and large runs of Portuguese and Spanish along the coast of continent-and later the American-gave a new boost to mapping. In Mexico, indigenous leaders, as Hernan Cortes, had geographical map drawn on paper of maguey and skins, and cotton fabrics, sisal and palm, in which he drew with vegetable colors and sometimes were given a finish with varnish.
These map reproduced itineraries and specific zones. It is believed that the Spaniards added to existing map notes in Spanish, replacing the footprint of barefoot shoe to indicate the paths that could be passable on horseback. Representation of Catholic churches by crosses symbolizing ideograms and later sources, canals and aqueducts were also added.
At the time of discovery of America highlighted the great cartographers and Diego Mendez, Juan de la Cosa, Pedro and Jorge Reinel, Sebastiano Caboto, Oronteus Finaeus, Desceliers and in a very special way, Gerardus Mercator, who in 1569 first used the canevas projection. As a curious fact is that Amerigo Vespucci, who received the great honor of naming the New World, was actually a prominent cartographer but not outstanding, and the perhaps undeserved honor that was done, was because an editor who published first map of new lands, pointed and the name was popularized in an irreversible way.
The system of Mercator projection, can considered the most important achievement in history of cartography, before the twentieth century, new techniques of aerial photography were imposed and subsequently from satellites. Amerigo Vespucci (1454 - 1512) was a sailor who worked in service of Portugal and the Crown of Castile; was considered the first European to understand that the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus formed a new continent.
For this reason, the cartographer Martin Waldseemuller used in his map of 1507 the name "America" as a designation for the New World. Vespucci began to draw map of their travels in Americas when installed in Seville (1508) in service of King Ferdinand. Both Solis, Pinzon, Juan de la Cosa and Vespucci contributed their expeditions to path of early map it is known on the American continent.
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