Explore the World from Your Homes!
By: Dhroov Nanda
Tags: Online Marketplace, Truegether, Maps, Education, Ebay Alternative

Antiques have a really special quality, they possess the ability to attract people towards their beauty. Antiques tend to showcase how our ancestors thought and executed their ideas. Every idea is unique but it is mostly inspired by someone else’s ideas these days, however, antique items have exclusively distinct features if we think about their time. People invented new things as per their needs and convenience. Their unique ideas and the story behind their invention are what make them more precious and adorable.

Cartography is a skill with many hidden skills!

Talking about antiques, maps were of great value in the earlier times and their importance has yet not decreased much. Maps have existed for thousands of years, and are estimated to date back to 16,500 BC. The oldest maps that have been discovered and preserved were on Babylonian clay tablets, they are said to date back to 2300 BC approximately.

Cartography is an amazing skill, it is a practice of drawing maps. Developing this skill requires a great amount of hard work, concentration, and patience. Cartography is indeed a very complex process. It requires precision, the person has to make out all the small details and the ways to present them on a flat surface of the paper. One must know how to project the terrains, and also many minor, irrelevant details must not be given consideration unnecessarily. The idea is to create a really simple yet detailed image of any region that would be convenient for a layman.

Who was the expert, ruling the world of cartography?

In the mid-sixteenth century, Belgium had a great leading cartographer, Gerardus Mercator. He initiated work upon an accurate and precise projection of maps. Based on mathematical calculations and estimates, he managed to develop a mapping projection. This projection was considered to be the most accurate one as compared to the others present at that time and even those that had been developed earlier.

Various other projections were also developed in continuation to Mercator’s work. Abraham Ortelius published the first modern atlas in 1570! Pietro Coppo was the person who worked upon the systematic arrangement of maps of similar sizes but it wasn’t published. Thus, Gerardus gets to lead this arena.

Analyzing these precious sources would be fun for sure!

The old historic maps hide a lot of stories inside them which would be fun to explore and figure out. Hence, TrueGether offers you a huge variety of maps! We have an amazing collection of ancient maps, atlases, and globes that would give you an idea as to how the rulers planned their strategy during wars, you’ll also get information about the various countries and how they emerged. There are many things that maps would offer you. You may buy single maps or collections of maps, that’s an Atlas or even a globe! We have gorgeous designs of antique globes as well. All these exciting objects are offered to you at the lowest possible price! All you need to do is regularly keep a check on our consistently renewing stocks and choose the one that you love to have. You’ll find your order at your doorsteps in the least time possible. Grab this great opportunity to explore the world from your homes!