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JFB: Ptolemy
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Islands around the North Pole
Better India
Reduced Madagascar
Inscription near Taprobana
The southward extent of the coast of South America
Johannes Ruysch world map from Ptolemy, Geographia
Sample of text from Ptolemy, Geographia
1545 Terra Florida
1545 South America
Modern world map from Ptolemy, Geographia, edited by Sebastian Münster
World map from Ptolemy, Geographia, edited by Sebastian Münster
Ptolemy's Name
World map from Ptolemy, Geographia, edited by Lorenz Fries
The "Admiral's Map" from Ptolemy, Geographia
1511 Heart-Shaped Map
1511 World Map
1511 Italy
1511 Scotland
1511 Bird
1511 Elephant
1511 Lizard
World map from Ptolemy, Geographia 2
Figure from the Ptolemy map printed in the Margarita Philosophica
Drooping heel of Italy from Ptolemy, Geographia
Columns of Alexander the Great from Ptolemy, Geographia
World map from Ptolemy, Geographia
A Ptolemaic map in the style of the world map in the 1482 atlas
Sample of text from the Geographia
Presentation from Nicolaus Germanus to the pope from
Ptolemy, Geographia
Ptolemy in an initial letter in the Geographia
World map from Ptolemy, Cosmographia
Example of poetry from Ptolemy, Geographia
Eastern portion of world map from Ptolemy, Geographia
Sources of the Nile River from Ptolemy, Geographia
An example of text with latitude/longitude readings from Ptolemy, Cosmographia
The "cloak" projection, from Ptolemy, Cosmographia
The simple conical projection, from Ptolemy, Cosmographia
Opening text from the first printed edition of Ptolemy, Geographia.
Opening text of Ptolemy, Almagestum.
Ptolemy and Marinus depicted on the titlepage of Ptolemy, Tabulae geographicae
Initial letter from Strabo, Geographia
Decorative compass rose
"Ptolemaeus Prince"
Alexandria, marked onto the modern world map from Ptolemy, Geographia
Portrait of Ptolemy and his map
Portrait of Ptolemy
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