EB 1911 Ptolemy's Map

Caption: " —Ptolemy's Map." A black-and-white map of the Inhabited World according to Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography, done according to his 2nd projection and labelled in Latin. The treatment is somewhat irregular, calling Africa "Africa" instead of Ptolemy's Libya but using the Greekified "Thyle" for Thule; Ptolemy's confused central African river systems are mostly removed, as is the coastline connecting Cape Prasum in Libya to the land of the Sinae in southeast Asia. The Indian Ocean is given by Ptolemy as a number of landlocked seas but presented here as a single "Indicum Oceanum". For discussion of the errors inherent in the original—such as the unexpected misplacement of Carthage and the north African coast—see the EB’s article on "Ptolemy". The caption describes it as "Fig. 3", but it is actually the 4th figure in the article.

Date

c. 1911

Mapmaker / publisher

Credited to Emery Walker

Place

Eurasia

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

3,916 × 2,166 pixels

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