File:PtolemyWorldMap.jpg

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English: 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.
中文：《托勒密世界地图》，原为克劳狄乌斯·托勒密所著《地理学》书中所附的多幅地图，后来由君士坦丁堡的希腊修士马克西姆·普拉努德斯等人重新编集，并由14世纪的意大利学者雅各布·安格鲁斯译为拉丁文。该地图15世纪中期在佛罗伦萨出版。
Date ad 1450–1475
Source Ptolemy's Geography (Harleian MS 7182, ff 58–59)
Author Credited to Francesco di Antonio del Chierico

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current23:02, 27 July 2014Thumbnail for version as of 23:02, 27 July 20141,500 × 1,026 (867 KB)Khamar (talk | contribs)Larger scan from British Library retreived 2014-7-27 http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=28894 which has been slightly sharpened. Text clarity is improved in this version and the overall tint is less yellow.
12:45, 27 November 2005Thumbnail for version as of 12:45, 27 November 20051,344 × 915 (810 KB)Alfio (talk | contribs)Bigger version
11:00, 20 June 2005Thumbnail for version as of 11:00, 20 June 2005800 × 545 (107 KB)Horatius (talk | contribs)Ptolemy's 150 CE World Map (redrawn in the 15th century). The British Library Harley MS 7182, ff 58v-59 {{PD-art}}

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