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1 Eratosthenes 276 BCE-194-BCE Born in Cyrene (Modern Libya)
Inventor of Geography

2 Maps: The Geographer’s Basic Tools

3 What is a Map? It is a representation of Earth’s features drawn on a flat surface.

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7 Winkel tripel projection

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9 Robinson Projection

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11 Gall-Peters Projection

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13 Gerardus Mercator From Belgium

14 Mercator 1569 World Map

15 Mercator Projection

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18 Ptolemy 90CE-168CE Born in Egypt, Roman Empire

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23 Small Scale Map 1:

24 Large Scale Map 1:25,000

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