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Geography of Claudius Ptolemy

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Author : Claudius Ptolemy
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781605204383
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Geography of Claudius Ptolemy written by Claudius Ptolemy and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, originally titled Geographia and written in the second century, is a depiction of the geography of the Roman Empire at the time. Though inaccurate due to Ptolemy's varying methods of measurement and use of outdated data, Geography of Claudius Ptolemy is nonetheless an excellent example of ancient geographical study and scientific method. This edition contains more than 40 maps and illustrations, reproduced based on Ptolemy's original manuscript. It remains a fascinating read for students of scientific history and Greek influence. CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY (A.D. 90- A.D. 168) was a poet, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and geographer who wrote in Greek, though he was a Roman citizen. He is most well-known for three scientific treatises he wrote on astronomy, astrology, and geography, respectively titled Almagest, Apotelesmatika, and Geographia. His work influenced early Islamic and European studies, which in turn influenced much of the modern world. Ptolemy died in Alexandria as a member of Greek society.

Ptolemy's Geography

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Author : Ptolemy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691214115
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Ptolemy's Geography written by Ptolemy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 best reference on how to gather data and draw maps. Ptolemy championed the use of astronomical observation and applied mathematics in determining geographical locations. But more importantly, he introduced the practice of writing down coordinates of latitude and longitude for every feature drawn on a world map, so that someone else possessing only the text of the Geography could reproduce Ptolemy's map at any time, in whole or in part, at any scale. Here Berggren and Jones render an exemplary translation of the Geography and provide a thorough introduction, which treats the historical and technical background of Ptolemy's work, the contents of the Geography, and the later history of the work.

The Geography

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Author : Ptolemy
Publisher : Dover Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geography written by Ptolemy and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second-century classic of civilization listed over 8,000 places in Europe, Africa and Asia, tabulated according to latitude and longitude. Excellent reproduction of the rare first and definitive English translation, published in a limited edition of 250 copies by the New York Public Library. Included are 27 maps.

Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance

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Author : Zur Shalev
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780854811526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance written by Zur Shalev and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rediscovery of Ptolemy's Geography has long been hailed as a key moment in the emergence of Renaissance culture, symbolizing a new rational spatiality, and preparing the way for the Age of Discovery. And yet, the process of the Geography's introduction, integration and impact in Western Europe, as the essays in this volume collectively suggest, was more complex and less predictable than has been traditionally assumed. Whereas previously Ptolemy's maps attracted most scholarly attention, in this volume the textual tradition of the Geography - Ptolemy's text, added prefaces, annotations and treatises - stand at the centre. Bringing together a wealth of previously unexplored sources and contexts, the essays examine the Geography as it took part in and influenced diverse areas of Renaissance culture, such as visual theory and communication, humanistic philological, historical and antiquarian practices, astrology, education and religion. The emerging Geography is perhaps less revolutionary but more satisfyingly embedded into the culture that produced and used it. This volume points to new directions for the study of the remaining questions that still hover around Ptolemy's seminal work and for the study of early modern geography as a whole.

Researches on Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Asia (further India and Indo-Malay Archipelago).

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Author : Gerolamo Emilio Gerini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Researches on Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Asia (further India and Indo-Malay Archipelago). written by Gerolamo Emilio Gerini and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leonardo's Library

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Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780911221633
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Leonardo's Library written by Paula Findlen and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Leonardo's Library: The World of a Renaissance Reader," Stanford University Libraries, Green Library, May 2 - October 13, 2019.

Ancient India as Described by Megasthenês and Arrian

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Author : Megasthenes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
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Ancient Perspectives

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Author : Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226789403
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Perspectives written by Richard J. A. Talbert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor’s rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.

Geography, Book 6

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Author : Ptolemy
Publisher : Dr Ludwig Reichert
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Geography, Book 6 written by Ptolemy and published by Dr Ludwig Reichert. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Introduction to the Depiction of the World which is ascribed to Ptolemy, the famous Alexandrian mathematician and astronomer (mid-second century AD), and was at least partially authored by him, is generally known as the Geography. Book 6 of the Geography deals with Assyria (Northern Iraq East of the Tigris), Media (Hamadan, Ray, Azerbaijan, Mazandaran), Susiana (Khuzestan), Persis (Fars), Parthia (Khorasan), the Carmanian Desert (Dasht-e Lut), Arabia Felix (Arabian Peninsula), Carmania (Kirman), Hyrcania (Gurgan), Margiana (Merv), Bactriana (Balkh), Sogdiana (Region of Bukhara and Samarqand), Sakaland (Pamir Region), Skythia, Serica (China), Areia (Herat), Paropanisadai (Hindukush Region), Drangiana (Sistan), Arachosia (Qandahar), Gedrosia (Baluchestan). In its times Ptolemy's description has enormously contributed to the western picture of the Asiatic countries and regions listed above, which remained unaltered till the times of Marco Polo, but stayed influential for some centuries afterwards. To the authors this seems reason enough to undertake a systematic and coherent treatment of this important piece of text from an interdisciplinary point of view, starting with a new edition. The present volume is the first complete critical edition of the book 6. It is not only based on the text of the 12 relevant manuscripts, but it also includes the readings of some Greek and Latin side-traditions and those of the maps which will be published and commented on in Part 2 of the work. The main object of the new edition of the text is to provide a reliable tool for research in this field. This is aimed at by inserting notable variants in the constituted text in order to draw attention to them, and by supplementing the English translation with one (in German) which is exclusively based on two manuscripts closely related to each other, thus giving an informative picture of the instability of the tradition of the geographical and ethnographical names and coordinates. This instability often hinders the editor of the text from mechanically applying the established formal principles of textual criticism, and in such cases the reader is referred to the discussions of the respective entries in Part 3, the commentary, which will be dedicated to the philological, historical, and linguistic analysis of the geographical and ethnographical names, and to their identification with historical and/or modern equivalents.

Ptolemy's Geography

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Author : Henry Newton Stevens
Publisher : Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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PTOLEMYS GEOGRAPHY

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Author : Edward Everett 1841-1927 Ayer
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781374300002
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book PTOLEMYS GEOGRAPHY written by Edward Everett 1841-1927 Ayer and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Ptolemy's Almagest

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Author : Ptolemy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691002606
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ptolemy's Almagest written by Ptolemy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-08 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections derived from medieval Arabic translations and extensive footnotes that take account of the great progress in understanding the work made in this century, due to the discovery of Babylonian records and other researches. It is designed to stand by itself as an interpretation of the original, but it will also be useful as an aid to reading the Greek text.

A List of Editions of Ptolemy's Geography 1475-1730

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Author : Wilberforce Eames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book A List of Editions of Ptolemy's Geography 1475-1730 written by Wilberforce Eames and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Some Account of a volume containing portions of Ptolemy's Geography and of the “Geographi Græci Minores.” [From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature.]

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Author : James YATES (F.R.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Some Account of a volume containing portions of Ptolemy's Geography and of the “Geographi Græci Minores.” [From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature.] written by James YATES (F.R.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ptolemy's Geography

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Author : Henry Newton Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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History of Geography

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Author : Sir John Scott Keltie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book History of Geography written by Sir John Scott Keltie and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

PTOLEMYS GEOGRAPHY

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Author : Edward Everett 1841-1927 Ayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781374300033
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book PTOLEMYS GEOGRAPHY written by Edward Everett 1841-1927 Ayer and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: