Editing World map (section)

==Historical maps==
{{Further|Early world maps}}
[[Early world maps]] cover depictions of the [[world]] from the [[Iron Age]] to the [[Age of Discovery]] and the emergence of modern [[geography]] during the [[early modern period]]. Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography. Maps are one means by which scientists distribute their ideas and pass them on to [[future generations]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/map/h_map/h_map.htm|title=History of maps and cartography|work=emporia.edu|access-date=17 October 2007|archive-date=9 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709084524/http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/map/h_map/h_map.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
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File:Anaximander world map (mul).svg|Hypothetical reconstruction of the world map of [[Anaximander]] (610–546 BC)
File:Sphendoné,_hoc_est,_Funda_Posidonii.jpg|World map according to [[Posidonius]] (150–130 BC),<br>drawn in 1628
File:Radkarte MKL1888.png|Ideal reconstruction of medieval [[T and O map|T-and-O maps]] (from ''Meyers Konversationslexikon'', 1895)<br>(Asia shown on the right)
File:TabulaRogeriana.jpg|{{Lang|la|[[Tabula Rogeriana]]}} world map by [[Muhammad al-Idrisi]] in 1154<br>north is to the bottom
File:Cantino planisphere (1502).jpg|''[[Cantino planisphere]]'': Portuguese world map from 1502
File:Leonardo da Vinci’s Mappamundi.jpg|World map in [[Octant projection]] (1514), from Leonardo da Vinci's Windsor papers
File:Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, by Abraham Ortelius, World, 1572.jpg|The world, [[Abraham Ortelius]]'s ''[[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum|Typus Orbis Terrarum]]'', first published in 1564
File:Mercator 1569.png|World map by [[Gerardus Mercator]] (1569), first map in the well-known [[Mercator projection]]
File:Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (坤輿萬國全圖).jpg|alt=|''[[Kunyu Wanguo Quantu]]''  ([[Ming dynasty]], 1602)
File:Claes Janszoon Visscher - Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula Autore'.jpg|1652 world map<br>by [[Claes Jansz. Visscher|Claes Janszoon Visscher]]
File:World Map 1689.JPG|A historical map of the world by [[Gerard van Schagen]], 1689 
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