Early world maps | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:12 1 Antiquity
00:01:22 1.1 Babylonian iImago Mundi/i (ca. 6th c. BCE)
00:03:27 1.2 Anaximander (c. 610&#160;– 546 BCE)
00:04:02 1.3 Hecataeus of Miletus (c. 550–476 BCE)
00:05:29 1.4 Eratosthenes (276–194 BCE)
00:06:18 1.5 Posidonius (c. 150–130 BCE)
00:08:35 1.6 Strabo (c. 64 BCE – 24 CE)
00:09:49 1.7 Pomponius Mela (c. 43 CE)
00:10:45 1.8 Marinus of Tyre (c. 120 CE)
00:12:16 1.9 Ptolemy (c. 150)
00:15:20 1.10 Tabula Peutingeriana (4th century)
00:16:20 2 Middle Ages
00:16:29 2.1 Cosmas Indicopleustes' map (6th century)
00:17:59 2.2 Isidore of Sevilla's iT and O map/i (c. 636)
00:19:15 2.3 Albi Mappa Mundi (8th century)
00:20:55 2.4 Ibn Hawqals map (10th century)
00:21:21 2.5 Anglo-Saxon iCotton/i world map (c. 1040)
00:24:15 2.6 Beatus Mappa Mundi (1050)
00:25:24 2.7 Mahmud al-Kashgari's map (1072)
00:26:32 2.8 Al-Idrisi's iTabula Rogeriana/i (1154)
00:27:36 2.9 Ebstorf Mappa Mundi (1235)
00:28:48 2.10 Hereford Mappa Mundi (1300)
00:30:19 2.11 Pietro Vesconte's world map (1321)
00:31:19 2.12 Catalan World Atlas (1375)
00:33:06 2.13 "Da Ming Hunyi Tu" world map (after 1389)
00:34:10 2.14 Kangnido world map (1402)
00:35:44 2.15 De Virga world map (1411–1415)
00:36:40 2.16 Bianco's world map (1436)
00:38:01 2.17 Borgia world map (early 15th century)
00:38:24 2.18 Genoese map (1457)
00:39:23 2.19 Fra Mauro world map (1459)
00:40:32 2.20 Martellus world map (1490)
00:41:23 2.21 Behaim's iErdapfel/i globe (1492)
00:42:48 3 After 1492
00:42:59 3.1 Juan de la Cosa map (1500)
00:43:43 3.2 Cantino world map (1502)
00:44:46 3.3 Caverio Map (c. 1505)
00:46:03 3.4 Ruysch World Map (1507)
00:48:12 3.5 Waldseemüller and Ringmann map (1507)
00:49:06 3.6 Piri Reis map (1513)
00:50:22 3.7 Pietro Coppo map (1520)
00:50:54 3.8 Diogo Ribeiro map (1527)
00:52:29 3.9 Mercator world map (1569)
00:54:11 3.10 "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" by Abraham Ortelius (1570)
00:55:45 3.11 "Die ganze Welt in einem Kleberblat" by Heinrich Bünting (1581)
00:57:27 3.12 "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu" by Matteo Ricci (1602)
00:59:01 3.13 Hendrik Hondius map (1630)
01:00:32 3.14 Nicolaes Visscher map (1658)
01:01:19 3.15 Gerard van Schagen's map of the world (1689)
01:02:12 3.16 Samuel Dunn's map of the world (1794)
01:02:58 4 See also
01:03:58 5 Notes
01:04:07 6 Further reading
01:06:40 7 External links



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The earliest known  world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm.
World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period.
The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius culminated in the Roman era, with Ptolemy's world map (2nd century CE), which would remain authoritative throughout the Middle Ages.
Since Ptolemy, knowledge of the approximate size of the globe allowed cartographers to estimate the extent of their geographical knowledge, and to indicate parts of the globe known to exist but not yet explored as terra incognita.
With the Age of Discovery, during the 15th to 18th centuries, world maps became increasingly accurate; exploration of Antarctica, Australia, and the interior of Africa by western mapmakers was left to the 19th and early 20th century.