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Ptolemy, Geography. In Greek. Paper. Fifteenth century.

Ptolemy's Geography contains instructions for drawing maps of the entire oikoumene (inhabited world) and particular regions, along with the longitudes and latitudes of about eight thousand locations in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The maps in manuscripts of the Geography, however, date only from about 1300, after the text was rediscovered by Maximus Planudes. There are two versions, the A recension with twenty-six large regional maps, and the B recension, displayed here, with sixty-four smaller regional maps and four large additional maps. Shown here is the additional map of Europe which reveals Ptolemy's systematic exaggeration of west to east distances, particularly in the eastward extension of Scotland and the west to east slope of Italy.

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This image is public domain because it was first published by the U.S. Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/math.html

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