The work of ancient Greek culture ‘Geografice hyfegesis …’ by Claudius Ptolemy, an astronomer and geographer of Alexandria was written around 160 A.C. It influences the knowledge of the world and the self-awareness of Europeans for nearly 1500 years
- The 1467 illuminated manuscript in latin of Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’ (‘Cosmographia’) is online at the Polish Digital Library.
- All twenty seven Ptolemy manuscript maps have been uploaded to Wikimedia.
- ‘Ptolemy’s World’ exhibition site at James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota.
- New Advent: Nicolaus Germanus; Geography and the Church.
- Bill Thayer’s translation of Ptolemy: The Geography, at the University of Chicago.
- Translation of Books I & II of Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’ by Louis Francis, 1994.
- The Wikipedia article on Ptolemy has a wealth of links.
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