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Title:
[The World]
Title (alt.):
Ptolemaic world map
Description:
Regions and Seasons: The winds, collectively known as Venti, have long been viewed as both bringers of good fortune and sources of chaos. In ancient Greece and Rome, the winds were seen as personas; gods who brought favorable or difficult weather to humans on earth. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (4th cent. BCE) named twelve winds, which are illustrated on this world map in the 1525 edition of Claudius Ptolemy’s (2nd cent. CE) Geographia. Carved from a woodblock – an early method of printing – this map names the four main winds that blow from the cardinal directions of north, south, east and west, along with eight minor winds.
Creator:
Fries, Lorenz, ca. 1490-1531
Date:
1525
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:
World maps--Early works to 1800
Eastern Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
World
Extent:
1 map ; 29 x 45 cm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg] : Iohannes Grieningerus
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:60,000,000]
Language:
Latin
Notes:
Map of the eastern hemisphere showing Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa.
Waldseemüller's Ptolemaic map of 1513, redrawn and reduced in this publication by Laurent Fries.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes names of places and natural features.
Map border shows decorative windheads.
Includes climatic and latitudinal notes.
Appears in the author's Geographia, translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, with annotations by Joannes Regiomontanus. Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg] : Iohannes Grieningerus, communibus Iohannis Koberger impensis excudebat, anno a Christi Natiuitate 1525 tertio Kal[endas] Apriles.
Text in Latin.
Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Atlas scanned by Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/claudiiptolemaei00ptol
Notes (exhibitions):
Exhibited: "Regions and Seasons: Mapping Climate through History" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2017.
Identifier:
06_01_007998
Call #:
G1005 .P7 1525
Barcode:
30000003787864