Geographia By Ptolemy Summary

It allows us to see not only the region through ptolemy's eyes in the second century ad., but also the view of the cartographer marinus, of unknown date, but almost certainly well before the. Ptolemy , latin claudius ptolemaeus, (born c. He worked principally in alexandria.

Geōgraphikē hyphēgēsis (guide to geography) provided all the information and techniques required to draw maps of the portion of the world known by ptolemy’s contemporaries. In his geography, ptolemy described and compiled all knowledge about the world’s geography in the roman empire of the mid 2nd century, an enormous undertaking. 170 ce ), an egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of greek descent who flourished in alexandria during the 2nd century ce.

He worked principally in alexandria.

The final volume of geography was ptolemy's atlas, featuring maps that utilized his grid system and maps that placed north at the top of the map, a cartographic convention that ptolemy created. But more importantly, he introduced the practice of writing down coordinates of latitude and longitude for every feature drawn on a world map, so that someone else possessing only the text of the geography could reproduce ptolemy’s map at. Ad 170), greek astronomer and mathematician. By his own admission, ptolemy did not attempt to collect and sift all the.