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Claudius Ptolemy (/ ˈ t ɒ l ə m i /; Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos [kláwdios ptolɛmɛ́ːos]; Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. AD 100 – c. 170) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. read more

world map derived from Ptolemy's Geographia World map derived from Ptolemy's Geographia, woodcut, 1482. It was included in a volume of Ptolemy's maps that was the first to be printed outside Italy and the first to use woodcuts. read more

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