c. 150 AD
Ptolemy systematizes coordinates and projections
Oceans, navigation & cartography · Nautical cartography
Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography combined a gazetteer with instructions for plotting places through latitude, longitude, and projections. It was not directly a nautical chart, and no secure original maps survive, but its system enabled map reconstruction and influenced later Islamic and European traditions.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- 1. guides.loc.gov (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2024-09-17
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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- 2. www.loc.gov (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
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- 2026-09-23
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