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Ptolemy's World Map, c. 150 AD.
Ptolemy's world map, republished in 1482. Ptolemy (c.100-168) the Greek
astronomer and the author of works on physics, mathematics, optics and
geography, produced the data for creating a world map in about 150 AD.
Unfortunately, none of his maps survived and his work was lost to the West
until the Renaissance. Scholars in the 15th century recreated Ptolemy's map
using the instructions in his work Geography, which explain how to project a
sphere onto a flat piece of paper using a system of gridlines - longitude and
latitude.
Ptolemy's map consists of the world known to him; he does not speculate on the
unknown, and as he worked in Alexandria the map is most detailed round the
Mediterranean. There are only three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa. The two
red lines are the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn; the sea is light brown, the
rivers are in blue and the mountains in dark brown. The surrounding
heads represent the major winds.
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