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...

Ptolemy's map of Ireland is a part of Ptolemy's "first European map" (depicting the British Isles) in the series of maps included in his Geography, which...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

exist) Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436)...

Ptolemy's world map, on which the geographic knowledge of medieval Europe was founded, displays the oceans as separated from each other, with Ptolemy...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Eastern Europe mention "Czernobol" (Chernobyl) with reference to Ptolemy's world map (2nd century AD). Czernobol is identified as Azagarium [uk] "oppidium...

was a German cartographer who modernized Ptolemy's Geography by applying new projections, adding additional maps, and contributing other innovations that...

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...

provided the underpinnings of Ptolemy's influential Geographia. Marinus's geographical treatise is lost and known only from Ptolemy's remarks. He introduced...

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...

projection—which Ptolemy disparages—rather than either of Ptolemy's; the world map is done according to the less-favored of the two projections Ptolemy offers....

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...

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...

theorem, and Ptolemy's relation obviously holds. More generally, if the quadrilateral is a rectangle with sides a and b and diagonal d then Ptolemy's theorem...

The "Old World" (Latin: Mundus Vetus) is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe after 1493, when Europeans became aware of the existence of...

(Catalan: Atles català, Eastern Catalan: [ˈatləs kətəˈla]) is a medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s or the early 1380s...

- still Greek speaking - colonists on the island once settled by the Ptolemies. In 880, an Ethiopian expeditionary force conquered the island and an...

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...

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...