Ptolemy, an Egyptian was the first Cartographer who made the map of the world according to
scale and direction. He was the first to represent earth on a map as a sphere. He recorded longitudes
and latitudes in degrees for roughly 8,000 locations on his world map.
a) Infer from the above passage, the features of Ptolemy's map which represent modern day map
making.
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Ptolemy, Latin in full Claudius Ptolemaeus, (born c. 100 CE—died c. 170 CE), an Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of Greek descent who flourished in Alexandria during the 2nd century CE. In several fields his writings represent the culminating achievement of Greco-Roman science, particularly his geocentric (Earth-centred) model of the universe now known as the Ptolemaic system.
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