Image: PtolemyWorldMap
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Description: A mid-15th century Florentine map of the world based on Jacobus Angelus's 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's late-13th century rediscovered Greek manuscripts of Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography. Ptolemy's 1st (modified conic) projection.
Title: PtolemyWorldMap
Credit: Ptolemy's Geography (Harleian MS 7182, ff 58–59)
Author: Credited to Francesco di Antonio del Chierico
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License: Public domain
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