A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements. Now a team of researchers have cracked the code, ...
<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. AFTER a journey around the world, a stolen 1482 map based on the work of the ancient astronomer and geographer Ptolemy has been ...
A 2nd Century map of the British Isles has been made available for the public to view online by the National Library of Wales. The 1486 woodcut map is one of the earliest surviving copies of Ptolemy's ...
AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very different ...
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A 2nd Century map of the British Isles has been made available for the public to view online by the National Library of Wales. The 1486 woodcut map is one of the earliest surviving copies of Ptolemy's ...
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