The English term cartography is modern, borrowed from the French cartographie in the 1840s, itself based on See more

It is not always clear whether an ancient artifact had been wrought as a map or as something else. The definition of "map" is also not precise. Thus, no single artifact is generally accepted to be the earliest surviving m… See more

In the Renaissance, with the renewed interest in classical works, maps became more like surveys once again, while European exploration of the Americas and their subsequent effort to control and divide those land… See more

In cartography, technology has continually changed to meet the demands of new generations of mapmakers and map users. The first maps were manually constructed with brushes and parchment and therefore varied in qu… See more

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1. ^ For a value of a 185 m or 607 ft per stadion.
2. ^ See the discussion in Gerardus Mercator#Duisburg 1552–1594 See more