The Greeks are credited with putting map making on a sound mathematical footing. The earliest Greek known to have made a map of the world was Anaximander.

Meanwhile, in Greece, the Milesian philosopher Anaximander pursued a similar goal: to map the whole world. His original work is lost to history, but scholars have tried to reconstruct it using ...

This world is then contrasted with the contributions of Anaximander: on the nature of atmospheric phenomena, such as the cycle of rainwater; the origins of humans and the universe (he suggested ...

Anaximander: And the Birth of Science Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Riverhead, $18 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-54236-1 ...

Mind-blowing map shows real size of every country - there's a massive north-south divide Africa, Europe and North America are completely different on this new map.

A Greek scholar, Anaximander, was the first to draw a map of the known world. It wasn't as accurate as maps today, but it showed what was known at that time about different continents, oceans, and the ...

A recreation of Anaximander’s map, one of the first attempts to map the world. Wikimedia Commons Maps have always been about depicting the world and helping us navigate through it. And Google ...