Tabula VII Asiae
The Seventh Map of Asia, from Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel's 1535 edition of Lorenz Fries's copies of Martin Waldseemüller's maps based on Ptolemy's Geography
- Date
- 1535
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Ptolemy; Johannes Regiomontanus; Wilibald Pirkheimer
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 1,918 × 1,300 pixels
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Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.
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