map drawn from Ptolemy's coordinates for a 1482 edition of his Geographia (The Ulm Edition, Leinhard Holle) Lands beyond the bounds of the known world tantalized the imaginations of ancient ...
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Amazing and Rare Antique Maps of the WorldIn 1407, "Geographia" translated his Greek works into Latin and reproduced Ptolemy's World Map. Moroccan geographer Muhammad ...
Marinus of Tyre, the First Geographer to Include China in Roman Maps and Invent the Term “Antarctic”
At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...
Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician ... Much of medieval astronomy and geography were built on his ideas: his world map, published as part of his treatise Geography in the 2nd century ...
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5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know AboutAlongside his Geography, Ptolemy’s maps and geographical descriptions were used by many other cartographers and navigators, helping redefine and reshape the perception of the known world.
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