Who made a significant,early contribution to cartography by dividing 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)Mercator-in the sixteenth century A.D.

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Ptolemy made this contribution in his book "Geographia," which was written in the second century A.D.

Who Made a Significant,early Contribution to Cartography by Dividing the Circumference