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Anaximander of Miletus CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

Route
Medieval Geography (550 BC C.) (12-OCT-1942
Aristotle (4th (1519-1522)
(5th century to 15th He was the first to draw a He discovered America, after
century BC) He demonstrated the
century map of the then known this trip he made 3 more
He would give roundness of the
The written texts The world. His map was spherical discovering Jamaica, Puerto
the first earth with his journey,
Travels of Marco Polo because it was the way the Rico, leaving a map of the
approximations in addition to
emerge and earth was already conceived: routes of his trips that were
to ensure that discovering new
Cartographic a sphere floating freely in the used for the subsequent
the earth was routes through
development is center of the sky. navigation of merchants and
round. previously unexplored
implemented. other explorers.
seas.

MEDIEVAL GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY

ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY MODERN GEOGRAPHY
PRE-MODERN

Pomponio Mela
(4th century BC)
He wrote a geographical
compendium called De
Chorographia where his
description of the world
obeys the following
regions: Hispania, Gaul,
Germania, Africa, Asia,
Britain and Arabia.
Eratosthenes of Ptolemy (S. XVIII) Vasco Nunez de Balboa Ranulph Fiennes and
Cyrene (250 BC) C.) Ptolemy, who Of Spanish nationality, Charles Burton
described the world of he discovered the South 1979-1982
He had the idea of his time, used a
Sea in 1513, that is, People from England
measuring the total system of latitude and
what is today called the were the first to cross
diameter of the earth. longitude, which
To do this, he Pacific Ocean. the two poles in
served as an example a single
invented and used a
trigonometric
for cartographers. circumnavigation trip
method, in addition planet.
to the notions of
latitude and
longitude.