A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements. Now a team of researchers have cracked the code, ...
<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...
The ancient Greek astronomer and geographer Ptolemy of Alexandria drew a map of the world in the 2nd century, which shows the stone fort as one of only five Irish sites to be noted. The Grianan of ...
A 2nd Century map of the British Isles has been made available for the public to view online by the National Library of Wales. The 1486 woodcut map is one of the earliest surviving copies of Ptolemy's ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. AFTER a journey around the world, a stolen 1482 map based on the work of the ancient astronomer and geographer Ptolemy has been ...
AT the meeting on Monday of the Royal Geographical Society, Dr. H. Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa.” Ptolemy, as a geographer, has received very different ...
The rendering of America and Africa in Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map (Wikimedia Commons) In June 2012, Brian McClendon, an executive at Google, announced that Google Maps and Google Earth were ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its ...
A 2nd Century map of the British Isles has been made available for the public to view online by the National Library of Wales. The 1486 woodcut map is one of the earliest surviving copies of Ptolemy's ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback