Ptolemy's maps of Earth and the heavens: a new interpretation

DOI10.1007/BF00375348zbMath0778.01001MaRDI QIDQ1205966

J. Lennart Berggren

Publication date: 1 April 1993

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

projectiongeographyastrolabePlanispheriumstereographic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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• Ptolemy's Geography, Book VII, Chapters 6 and 7
• The Central Projection in One of Ptolemy's Map Constructions
• A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy

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