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WORLD MAP By Claudius Ptolemy. Alexandria, Second Century, A.D.
(1534x21 inches.)
(In Nicolo Todescho, “Geographia.” Firenze, 1478 [?].) (Library of Congress.)
CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY bụ onye Grik ọkà mmụta mbara igwe, ọkà mmụta mgbakọ na mwepụ na geographer. A maghị onye ya - enyi, e wezụga eziokwu na o biri na narị afọ nke abụọ, n'oge ọchịchị Hadrian
Ptolemy kwuru n'okwu mmalite ya na ọdịdị ala ya
na maapụ dabere ozugbo na ọrụ anolder
onye dịkọrọ ndụ ya, Marinus nke Taịa, onye
Map bụ nanị ndị Ptolemy ka a maara.”
Ọ bụ ezie na obi abụọ adịghị ya na ihe odide Ptolemy bụ site na nke mbụ e ji maapụ akọwa, ọ bụghị oke - jide n'aka na e bipụtara maapụ ndị ahụ ederede bụ nnomi nke usoro izizi. Ekwuru ya “onye dọtara ha dị ka akwụkwọ asatọ nke Klọdiọs Ptolemy si kwuo,” mana ọ nweghị ihe ọzọ a maara gbasara Agathodx- mon. 'Echiche kacha ọhụrụ bụ na "Agathodamon
1. Victor Langlois, Géographie de Ptolemée, Paris, 1867. ern Europe, p. 10.
3. Lbid. p. 4.
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2. Schiette, Maapụ Ptolemy nke North-
enwere ike iwere ya dị ka odee nke maapụ ahụ uwa . . .; Ọ bụ dị ịrịba ama na na mmeghari ya map es- kwadoro echiche efu nke m maapụ dizeval.
Ebe ọ bụ na a machaghị asụsụ Grik na ọdịda anyanwụ- ern Europe na narị afọ nke iri na ise, ntụgharị- Nsụgharị nke akwụkwọ Ptolemy n'asụsụ Latịn dị mma mkpali na ọmụmụ ihe gbasara ala. Ntụgharị asụsụ Emmanuel Chrysoloras malitere na ndị ọrụ ibe ya. nwa akwụkwọ ya bụ Jacobus Angelus, onye raara onwe ya nye ya nye Pope Alexander V. Ihe odide ederede nke a ntụgharị asụsụ Lati nwere iri abụọ na asaa.
Ekwenyere na mbipụta mbụ ebipụtara bụ nke 14.75, mbipụta ya dị na John Carter Brown Ụlọ akwụkwọ dị na Providence. Ụbọchị 14.62 na ọzọ echere na mbipụta bụ mperi. N'ime na-esote narị afọ karịrị iri ise e bipụtara, nke nke Library of Congress na 1914 nwere mbipụta nke iri anọ na otu. Mmeputakwa ebe a nyere bụ nke maapụ ụwa n'otu akwụkwọ Flor- ence mbipụta nke 1478 na Library of Congress. Nordenskidld kwuru maapụ ndị dị na mbipụta a ịbụ “naanị mbipụta nke map Ptolemy e bipụtara n'atụmatụ mbụ ha nwere n'otu n'otu. lels na meridians." Na mgbakwunye na iri abụọ na maapụ asaa, otu n'ime ụwa, ebe a megharịa, na iri abụọ na isii nke mpaghara pụrụ iche, nke bụ otu n'ime ihe odide niile zuru oke nke geo- graphike, mbipụta a nwere ndị dịkọrọ ndụ anọ. maapụ Italy, Spain, France na Palestine, nke bụ ntọala nke eserese ọgbara ọhụrụ. Maapụ ndị dị na mbipụta Florence a, eleghị anya. nke nke mbụ e biri ya na ọla kọpa, bụ ndị dị ala karịa na gburu ndị e bipụtara na Rom n'otu afọ ahụ, otu oyiri nke enwere ike ịhụ na New York Public Library. Ederede nke mbipụta Florence bụ ntụgharị metrik n'ime Ita- ian mere site Francisco Berlinghieri.
Mbipụta ndị kacha ewu ewu na-esote bụ nke Donnus Nickolaus Germanus na 1482 na 1486. nke gbakwunyere ihe ọmụma nke British Islands, Scandinavia, na Greenland; John Ruysch;* Martin Waldseemiller;
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