The art of drawing maps or charts, was carried on, in medieval times, in the monasteries ; it has been greatly influenced by the work of Catholics. <\/p>\n
Domnus Nicolaus Germanus, a Benedictine monk (1466 ) was the first scholar to modernize Ptolemy and make him generally accessible. <\/p>\n
Cardinal Fillastre (1348-1428) had Ptolemy’s maps drawn from a Greek original. <\/p>\n
John Ruysch (1460-1533), a Benedictine , published a famous map of the world representing the new Spanish and Portuguese discoveries in America. <\/p>\n
Canon Martin Waldseemller (1475-1522) was responsible for the naming of America , being the first to use this name on a wall map and a globe. <\/p>\n
Martin Behaim (1459-1507), a German Catholic, constructed the oldest globe, now at Nuremberg. <\/p>\n
The most celebrated monument of medieval cartography, a map of the world, in the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, was the work of a Camaldolese monk, Fra Mauro (1459). <\/p>\n
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), a Catholic of Antwerp , made the first modern atlas which combined the maps of the world and contained a catalog of maps with the names of 99 cartographers who lived before 1570 . <\/p>\n
The Jesuit missionaries made maps of the territory they explored and a famous map of the Chinese Empire (1717 ) was due to their efforts. <\/p>\n
New Catholic Dictionary<\/p>\n
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