Ptolemy's Geography
Contributors: J. Lennart Berggren (Translator); Alexander Jones (Translator)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780691010427
Subjects: Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS); History of science; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Science; Geographia; Cartography; Ptolemy,; Science/Mathematics; ASIA; Europe; Geography, Ancient; Earth Sciences - Geography; History; Archaeology and Ancient History; Classics; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Science / History; 2nd cent; Early works to 1800; Greece
First sentence: World cartography is an imitation through drawing of the entire known part of the world together with the things that are, broadly speaking, connected with it.