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Who Made a Significant,early Contribution to Cartography by Adding a Grid

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Who made a significant,early contribution to cartography by adding a grid and orienting the map with north at the top? He also divided the circumference of Earth into 360°,with each degree comprising 60 minutes,and each minute comprising 60 seconds.


A) Pythagoras-in the sixth century B.C.
B) Sir Isaac Newton-in the seventeenth century A.D.
C) Magellan-in the sixteenth century A.D.
D) Ptolemy-in the second century A.D.
E) Eratosthenes -in the second century B.C.

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