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WebPtolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time. Written in the second century AD, for more than fifteen centuries it was the most detailed topography of Europe and Asia available and the best reference on how to gather data and draw maps.

WebPtolemy which described for the first time, textually and numerically, the geography of the known World in the 2 nd c. A.D. In this work Ptolemy gives the know-how on map construction and also a list of geographic coordinates of spherical longitude and latitude of almost ten thousand point locations, on the earth surface, known at his times.

WebIntroduction Ptolemy’s Geography is a treatise on cartography, the only book on that subject to have survived from classical antiquity. Like Ptolemy’s writings on astronomy and optics, the Geography is a highly original work, and it had a profound influ- ence on the subsequent development of geographical science.

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Webmagest)2 and the Geography (in eight books), it can be said that Ptolemy tended to dominate both astronomy and geography-andhence their cartographic manifes­ tations-forover fourteen centuries. Itis truethatduring the period from the second century A.D. to the early fifteenth century Ptolemy's geographical writings ex­

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WebPTOLEMY'S GEOGRAPHY 23 TRANSLATION Chapter 6 Representation of the Ringed Sphere83 together with the Oikoumene 4 1.5 The plan of the whole composition (of this work) has so far (been con-cerned with the) commensurate (type of the mapping). It will therefore not be out of place (now) to set forth how one can depict on a plane the …

WebAbove all, Ptolemy’s maps allow us to indulge in our fantasies. There is a strong tendency to project on to Ptolemy some of our modern geographical and cartograph-ical practices: historians like to find in Ptolemy’s Geography a pictorial representation of the Antonine world, while archaeologists are o en tempted to use his data to redis-

WebIn Ptolemy’s Geography, this territory corresponds to the provinces of Judaea Palestina, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Babylonia, famous for their ancient civilizations. This is the first application of our algorithms for numerical analysis of historical data to a region that is

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WebPtolemy Geography Book 8 Dioi Free Pdf Ptolemy GEOGRAPHY Book 8 - Dioi 4 Aubrey Diller Ptolemy GEOGRAPHY Book 8 2009 April 6 DIO 5 Of The GD (Books 2›7), 8000 Cities’ Latitudes L In Degrees, & Longitudes B In Degrees East Of The Blest Isles (BI). (No Signs Are Necessary For B, Since No B Is West Of The BI.)3 A5