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Orbis Typus Universalis iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem Exactissime Depicta 1522 LF

The modern world map from the second printing of Fries's edition of Ptolemy's Geography, including a sliver of South America and the islands of the Caribbean, after a map by Martin Waldseemüller

Date
1525
Mapmaker / publisher
Ptolemy
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,272 × 932 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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"Orbis Typus Universalis iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem Exactissime Depicta 1522 LF" (1525). Ptolemy, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orbis_Typus_Universalis_iuxta_Hydrographorum_Traditionem_Exactissime_Depicta_1522_LF.jpg

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