The Art of Map Making and Some Rare Maps Of The South Asia And Sindh 140 AD to 1808 AD

The Art of Map Making and Some Rare Maps Of The South Asia And Sindh 140 AD to 1808 AD: "The art of map-making and some rare maps of the south asia and Sindh 140 AD to 1808 AD

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M.H. Panhwar

The art of map making must have started as instructions for travelers and sailors for routes and places. First known geographical treatise is that of Anaximander a Greek philosopher (610-546 BC), who considered sky as a complete sphere rotating about the polar star. He also visualized that earth’s surface must be curved, to account for a position of stars as one traveled. He considered earth as a cylinder about its east wet axis and height about one third its diameter. Pythagoras (582-479 BC) and his followers developed the notion of spherical earth. Hecataecus, Skylax, Ktesia, Nearchus, Magasthenes, Eratasthenes, Eudoxus, Hippalus, Strabo, anonymous writer of Periplus and Pliny the Elder were a few geographers, who preceded Ptolemy and described the South Asia. Claudius Ptolemy writing around 150 AD had access to most of writings of his above predecessors and he was able to produce the first map of the world known in his time. His map was first published in 1475 AD and during next two and half centuries his maps were reprinted more than a few scores of times. The true Arab geographers were al-Idrisi (born 1100 AD) and....
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