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Claudii Ptholomei Allexandrini Cosmographi Waldseemuller Map
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Claudii Ptholomei Allexandrini Cosmographi Waldseemuller Map

A Ptolemaic map of the Old World after Ptolemy's second projection by Martin Waldseemüller, the second panel (starting from the upper left) of his larger map responsible for the naming of America

Date
1507
Mapmaker / publisher
Ptolemy
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,863 × 1,379 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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"Claudii Ptholomei Allexandrini Cosmographi Waldseemuller Map" (1507). Ptolemy, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claudii_Ptholomei_Allexandrini_Cosmographi_Waldseemuller_Map.jpg

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