The authors have done a splendid job in every way and have produced a work that will be useful for the duration of our lives and probably much longer.-Noel Swerdlow, University of Chicago and author of The Babylonian Theory of the Planets Berggren and Jones have made a difficult, detailed and challenging text far more accessible and have produced a work that will be the standard for many years to come. It supersedes all previous translations and corrects all editions. From the Back Cover The translation is exemplary, surely the best in any language. Here Berggren and Jones render an exemplary translation of the Geography and provide a thorough introduction, which treats the historical and technical background of Ptolemys work, the contents of the Geography, and the later history of the work. 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 Ptolemys map at any time, in whole or in part, at any scale. Ptolemy championed the use of astronomical observation and applied mathematics in determining geographical locations. 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.

| Manuscripts, Latin - Facsimiles.įischer, Joseph, 1858-1944 | Stevenson, Edward Luther, 1858-1944 | Nicolaus Germanus, 15th century | Ptolemy, active 2nd century.Book Synopsis Ptolemys 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. of the Geographia: the Ruysch world map (from the 1508 ed.), and the Lorenz Fries world map (from the 1522 ed.).

Includes reproductions of maps and some text from the Codex Ebnerianus and reproductions of two maps from 16th cent. New York : New York Public Library, 1932. Unabridged republication in reduced dimensions of the limited ed.: Geography of Claudius Ptolemy.

(Codex Ebnerianus) prepared by Donnus Nicholas Germanus. Translation of the Geographia and dedication of the 1460 ms. London : Constable, 1991ġ atlas (xvi, 167, ca. Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine, or Google for you.

The Geography by Ptolemy