Ptolemy's "Geography"
Subtitle: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters
Contributors: J. Lennart Berggren (Translator); Alexander Jones (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 26, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780691092591
Subjects: Cartography, geodesy & geographic information systems (GIS); History of science; Science; Science/Mathematics; History; Archaeology and Ancient History; Classics; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Science / History
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.