History of Cartography By Lauracatherinecass 6700 BCE Map of Catal Hyuk Period: 6700 BCE to 2000 History of Cartography 3000 BCE Babylonian clay tablets 3000 BCE First map of the moon 600 BCE Map of the Babylonian empire 600 BCE Pythagoras discovers Earth is a sphere 200 BCE Eratosthenes determines circumference of Earth, establishes coordinate grid 150 BCE Hipparchus creates early system of latitude based on sun 150 Ptolemy creates world map 476 Roman empire collapses 830 Al Kwarizimi creates world map based on Ptolemy 1030 Al Biruni develops triangulation 1375 Abraham Cresques produces world map using Portolan maps 1569 Gerardus Mercator publishes first projection for navigation 1730 sextant developed 1763 John Harrison develops accurate clock for determining longtitude at sea 1884 International Meridian Conference chooses Greenwich for prime meridian 1957 Sputnik - first man made satellite was launched 1960 Development of GIS 1960 TRANSIT , first GPS used by US navy 1973 Creation of NAVSTAR GPS system 2004 GPS integrated into mobile phones
