What are the famous old map in history

Map is spherical visual position of the stars projection to the plane of figure.In ancient China can make such a map.Map origin can be traced back to the neolithic age in China, then has a sun painted pottery statue of grain, the design of the moon and star.Then, with the lapse of time, the map also get continuously development.Have Chen Zhuo historic map map, dunhuang chart in the tang dynasty, song dynasty suzhou stone carving astronomical figure, etc.

Chen Zhuo map, is our country at present most of the map.Seeks to wu Chen Zhuo, the three countries.Chen Zhuo brought new astronomy existed at that time, the kam, wu salty three school is named after the stars, and common ground, close as a star chart throughout the day.A star 283 group, 1464.Chen Zhuo work has always been the later Chinese bibles of astronomers.

Dunhuang chart, is the oldest in the world map, are drawn in around 940 AD in the silk on the map, there are three walls, 20 BaSu map, location accurate, very precious.

Handed down from song dynasty suzhou astronomical figure carved stone, is also one of the earliest star chart.Huang Chang former northern song dynasty (1078-1085) in candidates.if your years according to the astronomical observations by drawing, south the Confucian ZongChun bestowed seven years (AD 1247) carved in stone, is stored in suzhou city, jiangsu province.Figure 8 feet high, 3, 5 feet wide, the upper draw a circular map, the lower the inscription, there are about 1440 stars.

In addition to the star chart of production, the ancients also made a comet.In 1973, the hunan changsha mawangdui tomb unearthed in a 3 $book of check good or ill luck.In the work of more than 2200 years ago, record the world's earliest known comet figure, a total of 29, a variety of shapes.The long, like a broom is tail, circle or black spots on behalf of the cosmic head.In each of the comet image there are written text, each of the text at the beginning of the name of the comet.