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Les Principaux Systemes Geographiques des Anciens
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Les Principaux Systemes Geographiques des Anciens

"The Principal Geographical Systems of the Ancients", a single plate containing four inset maps depicting the world as known to Homer, Eratosthenes, Herodotus, and Ptolemy. Drawn by Vuillemin, engraved by Erhard R. Douguay-Trouin, and printed by E. Dufrenoy at Paris.

Date
1877
Mapmaker / publisher
Homer; Eratosthenes; Herodotus; Ptolemy
Place
Herodotus's world
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,600 × 1,372 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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