File:EB 1911 Ptolemy's Map.png
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[edit]DescriptionEB 1911 Ptolemy's Map.png |
English: Caption: "Fig. 3.—Ptolemy's Map." A black-and-white map of the Inhabited World according to Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography, done according to his 2nd projection and labelled in Latin. The treatment is somewhat irregular, calling Africa "Africa" instead of Ptolemy's Libya but using the Greekified "Thyle" for Thule; Ptolemy's confused central African river systems are mostly removed, as is the coastline connecting Cape Prasum in Libya to the land of the Sinae in southeast Asia. The Indian Ocean is given by Ptolemy as a number of landlocked seas but presented here as a single "Indicum Oceanum". For discussion of the errors inherent in the original—such as the unexpected misplacement of Carthage and the north African coast—see the EB’s article on "Ptolemy". The caption describes it as "Fig. 3", but it is actually the 4th figure in the article. |
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circa 1911 date QS:P,+1911-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
Source | "Map" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., Vol. XVII, p. 636. |
Author | Credited to Emery Walker |
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Albion (Great Britain)
Indicus Oceanus (Indian Ocean)
Sinus Magnus (The Great Gulf: Gulf of Thailand)
Sinae (The [Coastal] Chinese)
Serica (The Land of Silk: [Inland] China)
Cattigara Sinarum (Cattigara of the Chinese: Probably Oc Eo near HCMC in southern Vietnam or Leilou near Hanoi in northern Vietnam)
Labadu
Bonae Fortunae (The Isle of Good Fortune)
Colchis (Georgia)
Aethiopia interior (Inner Ethiopia)
Aethiopia (Ethiopia)
Nilus (Nile R.)
Meroe
Aegyptus (Egypt)
Sinus Arabicus (The Arabian Gulf: The Red Sea)
Syene
Alexandria
Lunæ montes (The Mountains of the Moon)
Thyle (Thule)
Hibernia (Ireland)
Lusitan. or Lusitania (Portugal)
Gallia (Gaul: France)
Hispania (Spain)
Carthago (Carthage)
Italia (Italy)
Sicilia (Sicily)
Germania or Magna Germania (Germany)
Belgic or Belgica Gallia (Belgic Gaul: Belgium & northern France)
Scandie (Sweden)
Sarmatia (European Sarmatia)
Hyperboreum (Hyperborea)
Sarmatia (Asiatic Sarmatia)
Rha (Volga R.)
Maeotis (Azov)
Pontus Eux. or Pontus Euxenus (Friendly Sea: The Black Sea)
Cappad. or Cappadocia
Asia minor (Lesser Asia: Anatolia)
Rhodus (Rhodes)
Mac. or Macedonia
Byzantium (Constantinople or Istanbul)
Thrac. or Thracia (Thrace)
Dacia (Romania)
Pan. or Pannonia
Rhaetia (Danube R.)
Syria
Babylonia (Babylon)
Ath. or Athenae (Athens)
Corsica
Sardinia
Cyrene (Benghazi)
Arabia pet. or Arabia Petra (Rocky Arabia)
Armenia
Libya
Creta (Crete)
Emery Walker sc.
Zibala
Taprobane (Sri Lanka)
Sinus Barbaricus (Barbarian Gulf)
Sin. or Sinus Persicus (The Persian Gulf)
Aurea Chersonesus (The Golden Chersonese: The Malay Peninsula)
Arabia deserta (Deserted Arabia)
Arab. or Arabia Felix (Lucky Arabia)
Rapta
Maste
Indus (Indus R.)
Gange
Ganges (Ganges R.)
Scythia extra Imaum (Scythia Beyond Imaum: Xinjiang and Mongolia)
Sacae
Scythia intra Imaum (Scythia Within Imaum: Kazakhstan)
Persis
Carmana
Aria
Oxiana
Sogdiana
Oxus (Oxus R.)
Sera or Sera Metropolis (Silk Town: Xi'an)
India intra et extra Ganges (India Within & Beyond the Ganges)
Peloponnes. or Peloponnesus
Mare interius (Internal Sea: The Mediterranean Sea)
Mes. or Mesopotamia
Assyria
Media (Land of the Medes: Northern Iran)
Susiana
Phoenicium
Serra
Badeo
Palindromus (Aden)
Armusa (Hormuz)
Dire
Menuthiae
Apecopa
Mare exterius vel occiduum (Exterior or Western Sea)
Insulæ beatorum (Isles of the Blessed: The Canaries)
Turris lapidea (The Stone Tower)
Sabe
Maraba
Atlas m. or Atlas montes (The Atlas Mountains)
Nigira
Magrammum
Zibula
Thala m. or Thala montes (Thala Mtns.)
Vellegia
Cuphe
Thige
Magura
Throana (Θροάνα)
[敦煌 or Dunhuang]
Annibi m. or Annibi Montes
Auxacum or Auxacia (Auxacian Mountains)
Oechardus
Issedon. or Issedones
Imaus m. or Imaus Montes
Imaus m. or Imaus Montes
Garamantes
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