File:B26055955D - Undecima Asiae Tabula.jpg
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A map of Asia
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English: A map of Asia. The editor - according to his apologia in the introduction - deliberately decided to amend the construction of Ptolemy's maps to take account of modern discoveries. This bold step, needless to say, met with only partial success principally because Sylvanus relied on already outdated information, or felt unable to depart radically from long-standing geographical conceptions |
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| Source | NLB Singapore, David Parry Southeast Asian Map Collection. Available on BookSG https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/e3c5d678-0c58-4b6f-8556-2d8b088b3849.aspx |
| Author | Ptolemy, active 2nd century; Pencio, Jacopo, active 1486-1530, printer; Silvani, Bernardo |
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