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Originally Posted by MysticCat
In the second century AD, Claudius Ptolomy plotted the Earth as a globe complete with latitudinal lines measured from the equator and longitudinal lines.
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The crazy thing about this is you would think cartographers would have made a spherical model of Earth within the next few centuries. But no. I could be wrong, but I think the earliest known terrestrial globe didn't appear until somewhere around 1490-92.
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Last edited by cheerfulgreek; 07-22-2008 at 07:41 PM.
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