AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
2min chapter
Gerardus Mercator’s Groundbreaking Projection
Stuff You Missed in History Class
The History of Cartography
Around the world, people probably started making maps before developing written languages. It was at around this same time that people started figuring out how to make map projections - ways to represent a roughly spherical earth as a flat image. Greek mathematician thales of miletus is often credited with making the first map projection,. although he was making star maps rather than a map of the earth. The mago mundi, also called the babylonian map of the world dates back to about hundred b c e.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode