Geography (Ptolemy) From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Also known as by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia.

English: Geography or Cosmographia is a name of an old atlas, written by Ptolemy (2nd century). Français : Géographie ou Cosmographie est le nom d'un vieux atlas, ecrit par Claude Ptolémée (2e siecle). It has been published (among others): National Digital Library of Poland [1] ), 1467. in 1482 in Ulm, with the drawings of Dominus Nicolaus ...

Ptolemy's Greek name, Ptolemaeus (Πτολεμαῖος, Ptolemaîos), is an ancient Greek personal name.It occurs once in Greek mythology and is of Homeric form. [12] It was common among the Macedonian upper class at the time of Alexander the Great and there were several of this name among Alexander's army, one of whom made himself pharaoh in 323 BC: Ptolemy I Soter, the …

The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman society in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy 's book Geography, written c. 150. Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria .

Geography (Ptolemy) The Geography of Ptolemy in a c. 1411 Latin translation by Jacobus Angelus with 27 maps by Claus Swart . The Geography ( Greek: Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις, Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis, lit. "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas ...

The Geography (also known as Geographia, Cosmographia, or Geographike Hyphegesis) is Ptolemy's main work besides the Almagest. It is a treatise on cartography and a compilation of what was known about the world's geography in the Roman Empire of the 2nd century. Ptolemy relied mainly on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinus of Tyre, and on ...

Dies deutet darauf hin, dass Ptolemäus seine Längengraddaten neu skaliert hat, um mit einer Zahl von 180.000 Stadien für den Erdumfang zu passen, die er als "allgemeinen Konsens" bezeichnete. Ptolemäus skalierte experimentell gewonnene Daten in vielen seiner Werke über Geographie, Astrologie, Musik und Optik neu.