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EB 1911 Map Fig 4

Label: "PTOLEMY revised by retaining his Latitudes but adjusting his Longitudes to a Meridianal Degree of 700 Stadia" Also labeled: Berytus Caption: " " Actually the 5th figure in the article ("2" was duplicated.) A chorographal map of the Mediterranean on an elongated equirectangular projection, presumably to accommodate Marinus and Ptolemy's exaggerated conception of the absolute width of the sea. See the EB’s article on "Ptolemy" for more on specific errors in addition to his over-short degrees and over-long Mediterranean, including the idea that Portugal's "Sacred Promontory" was the westernmost point in Europe and his inexplicable misplacement of Carthage and the North African coast. Probably inaccurate, since Ptolemy placed Rhodes on the same parallel as the Straits of Gibraltar.

Date
c. 1911
Mapmaker / publisher
Presumably Emery Walker
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,354 × 1,190 pixels

Public domain

Reason: a US government work.

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