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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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

Printed Maps. British Museum Press. Taub, Liba Chia (1993). Ptolemy's Universe: The natural philosophical and ethical foundations of Ptolemy's astronomy...

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...

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 "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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Al-Ma'mun improved on Ptolemy's work and depicted the Indian Ocean as an open body of water instead of a land-locked sea as Ptolemy had done. The Iranian...

Vespucci. The map also first showed the Pacific Ocean, separating the Americas from Asia. The map is drafted on a modification of Ptolemy's second projection...

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...

(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...

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...

borrowing their attributes and being frequently conflated with them. Ptolemy's world map listed 12 winds: Septentrio (N), Aquilo (NNE), Vulturnus (NE), Subsolanus...

The Cassini Map or Academy's Map is the first topographic and geometric map made of the Kingdom of France as a whole. It was compiled by the Cassini family...

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...

utility and general significance of Ptolemy’s Theorem, it is especially useful to study its main Corollaries. Ptolemy's Theorem yields as a corollary a theorem...

classical maps of the region are Byzantine versions of Ptolemy's 4th Asia map. Cartographic history of Palestine thus begins with Ptolemy, whose work...

world; toponyms known as "Cassini signs" still exist, revealing where triangulated measurements at that time were made. The "map of Cassini" or "map of...