Geography (Ptolemy)
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geography-ptolemy-186-4587688
title:
Geography (Ptolemy)
text:
The Geography, also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire. Originally written by Claudius Ptolemy in Greek at Alexandria around 150 AD, the work was a revision of a now-lost atlas by Marinus of Tyre using additional Roman and Persian gazetteers and new principles. Its translation – Kitab Surat al-Ard – into Arabic by Al-Khwarismi in the 9th cent
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Treatise on cartography by Claudius Ptolemaeus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_(Ptolemy)
date created:
2005-12-14T15:32:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T11:51:33Z
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