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A history of mapmaking;Views of the world 地图史;世界景象; There is no such thing as an objective map; 准确地图谁见了; A History of the World in Twelve Maps. By JerryBrotton. 《12幅地图中的世界历史》，作者杰里布洛顿。 Around 150AD an astronomer named Claudius Ptolemy wrote a book about how to make aproper map of the world. Penned in Greek on a papyrus scroll, the work, known as theGeography, is one of the most famous ancient texts on the science of mapmaking. It placedthe job firmly in the domain of the geographer, who could use astronomy and mathematicsto calculate from the stars what the world looked like below. 公元 150年前后，一位名叫克劳狄斯托勒密的天文学家写了一本关于如何恰当绘制世界地图的书。该书用希腊文书写在一卷莎草上，这部被称为《地理学》的著作是地图制图学方面最著名的古文献之一。该书毫不含糊地将这项工作归于地理学家范畴，因为地理学家可以使用天文学和数学知识推测从星球上观测下面的地球是什么样子。 Ptolemy s Geography was an attempt to take myths out of maps. It recommended usinggeometric lines of latitude and longitude to convey a three-dimensional Earth on a two-dimensional surface, and it included the co-ordinates of over 8,000 locations in the ancientworld. Whether Ptolemy drew his own maps is unclear. The Geography disappeared for athousand years, only for an unoriginal copy to appear in the 13th century, replete withcoloured maps drawn by Byzantine scribes. Regardless, these geographic drawings and allother maps based on scientific calculation are his legacy. | 
