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Fig. 15.2 Examples of pages about map history, GIS and multimedia cartography

most popular themes were the history of maps and the computer cartography. Three
websites were made on these topics: Map History, GIS and Multimedia Cartogra-
phy (including Thematic Cartography). Its structure and design was similar to the
“All about maps

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” website, to be inter-connected and to create a collection dedicated
to cartographic themes for children and young people (Reyes 2006a , b , c ). The content
of this collection was composed as shown below (Fig. 15.2 ).
Map History website (six chapters containing 39 themes):

1. Maps from the Ancient Age: Town Plan from Catal H uk, rock map from

Bedolina, Mesopotamian world map from Nuzi, Mesopotamian town map of
Nippur, Babilonian clay tablet, Turin Papyrus.
2. Hellas and Rome: Pythagoras and the spherical Earth, Aristotle and
Dicaearchus, Eratosthenes, Ptolemy, Tabula Peutingeriana, the first T-O maps.
3. Early Middle Ages: Maps from the Middle Ages, monastery maps, climatic zone
maps, the Islam Atlas, Al-Idrisi's works, portolan maps, Catalan atlas,
translations of Ptolemy's works.
4. The Great Discoveries: Portuguese discoveries, Christopher Columbus, discov-
ery of the New World, Cosa worldmap, Cantino worldmap, Waldseem

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America, Piri Reis worldmap, Magellan and the circumnavigation of the Earth.
5. The first atlases: Mercator and Ortelius, Gerhard Mercator's works, Abraham
Ortelius' works, Waghenaer's atlas.
6. The first Hungarian maps: the English Saxon map, Dulcert's portolan map,
Cusanus and Fra Mauro, L ´ z ´ r secretary's map of Hungary, details on the first
Hungarian map, actual Hungarian limits on the L ´ z ´ r's map, J ´ nos Zs ´ mboky.

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