The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy's book...
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the Roman era, with Ptolemy's world map (2nd century CE), which would remain authoritative throughout the Middle Ages. Since Ptolemy, knowledge of the approximate...
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Ptolemy's map of Ireland is a part of his "first European map" (depicting the British Isles) in the series of maps included in his Geography, which he...
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from an earlier map, although this could not have been an exact copy of Ptolemy's work: his Prime Meridian was 10° east of Ptolemy's, he adds some places...
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7 – Ptolemy Cluster, star cluster described by Ptolemaeus Pei Xiu Ptolemy's Canon – a dated list of kings used by ancient astronomers. Ptolemy's table...
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Cartography of Africa (redirect from Map of africa)
Catabathmus Magnus (the escarpment of Akabah el-Kebir in western Egypt). Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) shows a reasonable awareness of the general topography...
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exist) Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436)...
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Cartography of Europe (redirect from Map of italy)
Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description...
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Cartography of the United States (redirect from Map of florida)
States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history...
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Cape Route (redirect from Indo-Atlantic world)
Ptolemy's world map, on which the geographic knowledge of medieval Europe was founded, displays the oceans as separated from each other, with Ptolemy...
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Chernobyl (section Identity of Ptolemy's "Azagarium")
Eastern Europe mention "Czernobol" (Chernobyl) with reference to Ptolemy's world map (2nd century AD). Czernobol is identified as Azagarium [uk] "oppidium...
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Cartography (redirect from Map making)
wrote his treatise on cartography, Geographia. This contained Ptolemy's world map – the world then known to Western society (Ecumene). As early as the 8th...
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topological map is a type of diagram that has been simplified so that only vital information remains and unnecessary detail has been removed. These maps lack...
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Cantino planisphere (redirect from Cantino World Map)
The Cantino planisphere or Cantino world map is a manuscript Portuguese world map preserved at the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, Italy. It is named after...
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Chittagong (section World War II)
the world's oldest ports with a functional natural harbor for centuries, Chittagong appeared on ancient Greek and Roman maps, including on Ptolemy's world...
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History of cartography (redirect from World's oldest map)
provided the underpinnings of Ptolemy's influential Geographia. Marinus's geographical treatise is lost and known only from Ptolemy's remarks. He introduced...
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Tetrabiblos (section Ptolemy's philosophical arguments)
transmitted to Ptolemy Greek astronomy – the astronomy of Ptolemy's era Ptolemy's world map – map of the ancient world as described by Ptolemy Quoted by Luck...
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Dragons History of cartography Old World, consists of Africa, Europe, and Asia Ptolemy's world map, a map of the world known to Hellenistic society in the...
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Martin Waldseemüller (section 1507 world map)
first to create a printed wall map of Europe. A set of his maps printed as an appendix to the 1513 edition of Ptolemy's Geography is considered to be the...
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The map of Juan de la Cosa is a world map that includes the earliest known representation of the New World and the first depiction of the equator and the...
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first became a chain of freshwater lakes and marshes, as shown by Ptolemy's world map, then it became extinct about 2000 years ago.: 28 Abundant prehistoric...
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Cartography of Palestine (redirect from Maps of Ancient Israel)
classical maps of the region are Byzantine versions of Ptolemy's 4th Asia map. Cartographic history of Palestine thus begins with Ptolemy, whose work...
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with the world map. Lucio Russo has speculated about a probable arrival of Phoenicians in the Americas in his philologic analyses of Ptolemy's Geography...
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History of Chittagong (section World War II)
the world's oldest ports with a functional natural harbor for centuries, Chittagong appeared on ancient Greek and Roman maps, including on Ptolemy's world...
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- still Greek speaking - colonists on the island once settled by the Ptolemies. In 880, an Ethiopian expeditionary force conquered the island and an...
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The "Old World" (Latin: Mundus Vetus) is a term for Afro-Eurasia coined by Europeans after 1493, when they became aware of the existence of the Americas...
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bestowed in honor of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. The map is drafted on a modification of Ptolemy's second projection, expanded to accommodate the Americas...
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Nicolaus Germanus (section Ptolemy's Geographia)
was a German cartographer who modernized Ptolemy's Geography by applying new projections, adding additional maps, and contributing other innovations that...
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Agathodaemon of Alexandria (category Ptolemy)
projection, which Ptolemy criticized, instead of either of Ptolemy's preferred projections. The world map, however, uses Ptolemy's less-favored projection...
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