The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-11-04
ABOUT MAPS.
AHMAKERS have bsen, in proportion to the value Of thor
MI serios TIE least honored Of the worlds benefacors
- the earth's

MI ssryioss honored Of tho worlds benefactors
W. E1plor disoovess scraps Of the earths
A srs remembered for IN Tina Who has heard tho
names Of whs pssnty plotted out tho land and made
Dsssfbs ire re Of msnkndi Docs any cut smaller
figure In history than the msp-maker'
Il II interesting 10 the modern worlds biggest mp,
Of which the first sheets being issued planned by
Geneva assembled at the British Foreign oce-whch
place tho gest undertaking extent under English
auspice The English peoples have been tho great
Other nations Ger another have enjoyed that dis
incon Even tho popular side significant that to-day most
Of the civilized world travels With German gidebook that Bsedo
Ter the tours synonym for trustworthy direction and nstuc
ion in a strange land.
map Of tne first needs Of adventurous Even
avages" and primitive peoples may have rudmenay ssrvcc
e charts Arctic explorers s Ross and Parry have told Of the
help they from rough drawn for them BY Emos When
the spanard Amer they found sstonhng good maps
nong semiciv1sd Mcxcsns Mntezum the Asteo emperor
map printed coh clearly indicating tho shore line
nd towns Quit The Incas in had only out
ne maps but maps In rset-<hs first record.
The Oldest maps existence Egyptian papyr bearing
rough drawings Of gold mines In enc Nubian desert Az carly
$500 O. the King BsonA recorded surveys clay tablets
los help syns tazsa and IN the British Museum circular
ck" dating $500 showing lower Babyonia enciroled
y "a great salt water river"
The early Gres drew picture msps the circular
ns extending from the Caspian Hss the the
cltsr TIE ws ne whole bounded by great encompassng
ss; and IN the centre Il this world they placed their beloved
ussece and tho Aegean Later In tho sixth century B. O. one
Anaxmcne gained The ns Oa Ar geographsr Of by repre-
smng the earth obons rscange resting mid space on
k developed soundes icienAo notions Of latitude longitude
md the measuring distances BY pacing Psmy second
century laid out general map Of the world which, spite
many mistakes and ude remained the progress
~ p-makns down 10 the sixteenth century.
The hardheaded Romans bothered little about science and
Doy thea- They wanted practical charts military
and political The marvellous network measured oft
By msones with which they covered the empire made
s for ndmaps and for the Of the Mediterranean they
had the Ptolsms char The only two specimens Of Roman map
making that have down 10 plan Rome and road
map OF the world In strip The Romans usually drew
their world oval plane IN which the TO
twice long from east to west from 10 south
During the Middle Ages advanced mapmaking was tckisl
business owing to the attitude Of tho Church Holy Scriptures
supposed have laid down all the shape Of the
earth The make Of rectangular pointed confidently to sucl
expressions he four OF tho earth isaiah 1
held that the Tabernacle image the world large
Before Columbus time however, Poemac theories were gain
ing force again The ideas with which Columbus started out on hi
voyage fairly represented globe which German geographic
set in Nuremberg l492 This globe twenty inchc
diameter and made Of paseboard whiting ant
parchment Not the West Coast Africa correctly drawn
though the maker claimed he had been ocean separat
ing Europe from Asia only understood Atlantic with nothn
substantial in Japan Gay painted flags and decoration
diverted the attention from the bare spots Of this sphere
Immediately following the discovery of the Dutc
to be the first mapmake Antwerp and
famous centres OF "artography" In the eighteenth century tn
palm passed to France where the gogaphers did much tn
blanks and correct the China the Antarc
been the great maker Of maps scientific and practical IEngan
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