History of Cartography By facebooker_10157862994603066 6500 BCE Map of Catal Hyuk 3000 BCE Babylonian Clay Tablets 600 BCE Map of Babylonian Empire 600 BCE Pythagoras - Earth is a Sphere 200 BCE Eratosthenes - Circumference of the Earth 150 BCE Hipparchus - Latitude Based on Sun 150 Ptolemy World Map 476 Fall of Rome Scientific Cartography Ceases in Europe 830 Al-Khwarizmi - Arab World Map 1030 Al-Biruni Triangulation 1375 Abraham Cresques World Map 1569 Gerardus Mercator - First Projection for Navigation 1730 Sextant Developed 1763 John Harrison Longitude at Sea 1884 Prime Meridian Greenwich International Meridian Conference Greenwich as the Prime Meridian 1990 GIS and GPS
