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Carte Universelle de Ptolomee
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Carte Universelle de Ptolomee

"Ptolomy's World Map", a comparison of Ptolemy's geographical knowledge with that of 18th-century Europe, from volume IV of Noël Antoine Pluche's Spectacle de la Nature. The southern expanse of Africa is labelled "Imaginary Ethiopia".

Date
1752
Mapmaker / publisher
Ptolemy
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,600 × 1,226 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-70-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Carte Universelle de Ptolomee" (1752). Ptolemy, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carte_Universelle_de_Ptolomee.jpg

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