Pei Xiu's principles of cartography
Principios cartográficos de Pei Xiu
- Date
- c. 267 · confidence medium
- Place
- Luoyang, Henan, China
- Credited to
- Pei Xiu, Minister of Works of the Jin
- People
- 👤 Pei Xiu224–271
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
Six principles for making maps: graduated scale, rectangular grid, orientation, true distances, and correction for slopes and detours. It fixed Chinese grid cartography for more than a thousand years.
Contemporary with, and independent of, Ptolemy's cartography; his maps have been lost.
What it led to
- scale grid maps
- imperial administrative cartography