Ptolemy's map of the World, 2nd century

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Map of the world from an edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia'. This 1482 atlas was a translation of Ptolemy's original work from Greek to Latin made in Ulm, Germany. Claudius Ptolemaeus, also known as Ptolemy, was an astronomer and geographer who lived in the 2nd century in the Greek culture of Roman Egypt.

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