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From an Anaximander Map to a Google Map,the history of cartography. Google Maps is the first thing that will usually come to the mind of an average traveler when making a reference to a map. But have you ever wondered what ancient famous explorers like Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Christopher Columbus or Vasco da Gama used as a guide when sojourning the world as you do today ? From here  mehkury takes you on a cartographic time travel,when men explored the world without Google ....lol 1. ANAXIMANDER WORLD MAP, 6TH CENTURY BC (Image:  Public Domain ) Anaximander was a Greek philosopher who lived in the 6th Century BC and was arguably the founder of cartography. His map is probably the first of the  known  world. Anaximander’s world was very different to ours: it included only the Mediterranean Sea and three major landmasses: Europe, Asia and Libya, which represents modern-day North Africa. Most importantly, it gave ...

Time  is the indefinite continued progress  of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. No man can control time as it is, like walking back to the past or have a sneak peak into the future. Time has been a phenomenon older than man itself ,and up until the present moment humans everyday postulate different ways to comprehend time. Timepieces and Calendars are an axiomatic tools humans use to either manage or control their own time specific to their lives. Mehkury takes a pictorial walk down memory lane to see the evolution of one  the tools man has used to manage his time :The timepiece. Timepieces have evolved remarkably since their emergence in Egypt around 6,000 years ago. The advances in their mechanisms, precision, size, and portability have been immense. Look back through the evolution of timepieces in parallel with historical cha...