Ptolemy, Geographia
Italy, ca. 1480 Edition Atlas of the world from Western Europe and Africa to Indochina, containing 27 maps and 26 tables
Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Klaúdios Ptolemaios; after 83 – 161 AD), known in English as Ptolemy, was an ancient mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer. He lived in Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou; he died in Alexandria in 161 AD. His maps provide valuable clues to the migrations of ancient cultures.
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