Ptolemy's Geography : : An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters / / Ptolemy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Ptolemy,
• TeilnehmendeR: Berggren, J. Lennart.; Jones, Alexander.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 13 maps, 20 line Illus., 2 tables, 8 halftones

Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time. Written in the second century AD, for more than fifteen centuries it was the most detailed topography of Europe and Asia available and the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Note on Citations of Classical Authors
• Introduction
• Ptolemy, Guide to Drawing a Map of the World
• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 7
• Book 8
• Plates and Maps
• Notes on the Plates and Maps
• Maps 1-8
• Appendices
• Appendix A: The Journeys of Flaccus and Maternus to the Aithiopians
• Appendix B: Marinos' Calculation of the Latitude of Cape Prason
• Appendix C: The Trade Route across Central Asia
• Appendix D: The Breadth of the Mediterranean According to Marinos and Ptolemy
• Appendix E: The Sail to Kattigara
• Appendix F: The Miscellaneous Criticisms of Marinos' Data
• Appendix G: Textual Notes
• Appendix H: Geographical Index
• Bibliography
• Index