He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver him into ... One was the 1522 edition of the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, the other a collection of historical ...

In 1407, "Geographia" translated his Greek works into Latin and reproduced Ptolemy's World Map. Moroccan geographer Muhammad ...

map drawn from Ptolemy's coordinates for a 1482 edition of his Geographia (The Ulm Edition, Leinhard Holle) Lands beyond the bounds of the known world tantalized the imaginations of ancient ...

The world map of today also takes us back to a time ... In a significant development in the field of cartography, Ptolemy was the first to apply latitude and longitude coordinates to map countries ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician ... Much of medieval astronomy and geography were built on his ideas: his world map, published as part of his treatise Geography in the 2nd century ...

Seafarers of the Marshall Islands built elaborate maps out of palm twigs and ... ever since the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy created the first world atlas in the second century A.D. The ...

The Babylonian oldest map solved revealing ancient beliefs about Mesopotamia and mysterious lands beyond the known world.

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

The ancient Library of Alexandria, built in the city founded by Alexander the Great, was one of the greatest wonders of the world.

Ptolemy, Geography I.11 Map showing the five possible locations of the Stone Tower: Tashkent, Sulaiman-Too, Erkeshtam, Daraut-Kurgan and Tashkurgan. Credit: DutchTreat / Wikimedia Commons Tashkurgan, ...

Now researchers have managed to recover the text written by Ptolemy on a parchment that suffered such a previous recovery attempt. Outermost six rings of the meteoroscope, not to scale.

Ptolemy Dean's new book, 'Streetscapes ... It also gives the opportunity to absorb the atmosphere of the place, hearing snatches of conversation and watch the world go by. The experience of drawing ...