Claudius Ptolemy (150 AD) map drawn from Ptolemy's coordinates for a 1482 edition of his Geographia (The Ulm Edition, Leinhard Holle) Lands beyond the bounds of the known world tantalized the ...

“It’s one of the most beautiful maps to have survived from the Renaissance ... One was the 1522 edition of the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, the other a collection of historical narratives ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician ... Much of medieval astronomy and geography were built on his ideas: his world map, published as part of his treatise Geography in the 2nd century ...

the art and science of representing the Earth on maps, has been central to the understanding and exploration of the world since ancient times. The great cartographers, such as Claudius Ptolemy ...