File:Generale Ptholemei II.jpg

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English: Ptolemy's General Map, using his first projection, from the Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 Strasbourg edition of the Geography.
Latina: Generale Ptolomaei
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Source "How the North Ended Up on Top of the Map", Al-Jazeera America
Author Nick Danforth
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