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PTOLEMY'S MAP OF THE WORLD, ORIGINALLY DRAWN ABOUT a.d. 150

From the first printed edition of 1472 (the first book to have printed maps) and the famous Rome edition of 1508. It is only necessary to compare this map with the mythical geography represented in a mediæval map such as the Hereford map of the world, made eleven centuries later to recognise the extraordinary accuracy and scientific value of Ptolemy's geography. In fact, no copies of Ptolemy's maps survive, the first printed edition was the Bologna Ptolemy of 1477 (misdated in its colophon to 1462, not 1472), and the Rome Ptolemy was first published in 1478. (The 1508 printing was its 3rd edition.)
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Source A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, from the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
Author Margaret Bertha Synge
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