Ptolemy's map of Africa from an edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia'. The text labels are in Latin, and this map is titled 'Quarta Affrice Tabula'. This 1482 atlas was a translation of Ptolemy's original work from Greek to Latin. Claudius Ptolemaeus, also known as Ptolemy, was an astronomer and geographer who lived in the 2nd century in the Greek culture of Roman Egypt. | |
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