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Overcoming Ptolemy: The Revelation of an Asian World Region

Overcoming Ptolemy: The Revelation of an Asian World Region

Hardcover

Series: Asiaworld

Art HistoryAfrican HistoryAncient Egypt

ISBN10: 1498590136
ISBN13: 9781498590136
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Oct 15 2018
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book explores the effects that the Ptolemaic template developed by Claudius Ptolemy almost two thousand years ago had on the cartography and worldview of Europe through and beyond the age of European discovery. It shows how this template was refined and ultimately overcome.

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