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Claudius Ptolemy's world, cir. A. D. 150
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Claudius Ptolemy's world, cir. A. D. 150

"Map of the World according to Claudius Ptolemy, cir. A. D. 150, an abridged sketch after a map in Bunbury's History of Ancient Geography", a world map using Ptolemy's second projection, based on the information in his Geography. From p. 265 of Vol. I of John Fiske's 1897 The Discovery of America.

Date
1897
Mapmaker / publisher
John Fiske
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,800 × 1,018 pixels

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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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"Claudius Ptolemy's world, cir. A. D. 150" (1897). John Fiske, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claudius_Ptolemy%27s_world,_cir._A._D._150.jpg

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