as the tools of the cartographic trade evolve from flights of fancy to high-flown satellite imagery. Claudius Ptolemy (150 AD) map drawn from Ptolemy's coordinates for a 1482 edition of his ...

Claudius Ptolemy, more commonly known just as Ptolemy ... This innovative presentation made the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum an invaluable tool for navigators, explorers, traders, and scholars of ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...