Hello, We get this info from another List - not geneology - but it has very informative facts, history included. Sending this to my lists because it tells of the first map. Great list if you have children also. June March >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Learning Kingdom's Cool Fact of the Day for January 26, 1999 >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Who drew the first map of the world? > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >The first map of all the known lands was probably drawn by the Greek >philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (610 - ca.546 BC). He may have >been the first person to attempt such a map, although in several >places there were people who could draw local maps. > >Anaximander collected information from voyagers stopping at Miletus, >and tried to construct a full picture of the entire world, as it was >known at the time. He drew the Mediterranean Sea surrounded by land, >with a larger ocean around the land. > >He conceived of the Earth as a cylinder, suspended in empty space, >with the sphere of the heavens rotating around it once each day. He >said that the curvature of the cylinder explained the variation in the >angle of the sun with latitude. > >Anaximander was also a great philosophical thinker: >http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/g/w/gwj/www/html_dox/Anaxim ander.html > >--------------- http://www.LearningKingdom.com/links/ ---------------- > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Cool Fact of the Day list membership: 60,986 >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe, visit http://www.tlk-lists.com/join/ > To unsubscribe, visit http://www.tlk-lists.com/change/ > To become a sponsor, visit http://www.tlk-lists.com/sponsor/ >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Copyright (c) 1999, The Learning Kingdom, Inc. > http://www.LearningKingdom.com >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >