History of World MAP
World MAP In the 1891 International Geographical Congress established specifications for the scale map of the world, and World Wars 1 and 2 and brought more progress. The sixth-century tablet known as Imago mundi shows Babylon on the Euphrates , with cities on the circular land mass, surrounded by a river. According to the Greek scholars developed a spherical Earth theory using astronomical observations, and in 350 B.C.E. Aristotle produced argument to justify this practice. In the first century C.E., Ptolemy, an astronomer and mathematician, developed a reference - line principle. His Guide to Geography list 8000 locations with their approximate latitudes and longitudes. However he underestimate the size of the Earth. Few of the Maps and Images was found on Turkey, India and Egyptian land with the age of 8500 B.C.E, 8000 B.C.E. and 6500 B.C.E.