Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1920 — How It Started [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

How It Started

. MAPS. THE earliest known maps were those of Sargon, king of Akaad, In Babylonia, which existed 3800 B. C. These were topographical plans used for purposes of taxation. The first map of the world Is credited to Anaximander, who lived about 560 B. C.; but the real founder of map-making and the study of geography was Aristotle, who first exploited the theory that the earth is round. (Copyright.) < ■ —