Ptolemy World Map - Public domain geographic map

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Ptolemy World Map - Public domain geographic map

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A mid-15th century Florentine map of the world based on Jacobus Angelus's 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's late-13th century rediscovered Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography. Ptolemy's 1st (modified conic) projection.中文:《托勒密世界地图》,原为克劳狄乌斯·托勒密所著《地理学》书中所附的多幅地图,后来由君士坦丁堡的希腊修士马克西姆·普拉努德斯等人重新编集,并由14世纪的意大利学者雅各布·安格鲁斯译为拉丁文。该地图15世纪中期在佛罗伦萨出版。

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Date

1200 - 1300
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Location

London, UK
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Source

Ptolemy's Geography (Harleian MS 7182, ff 58–59)
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