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Saturday, October 16, 2010
Ptolemaic Map
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PtolemaicMap.jpg
This is a
Ptolemaic Map.
This is a map based on Ptolemy's description of the world in his book
Geographia
(written around 150). This map is significant because it is the first to use latitudinal and longitudinal lines.
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