File:Prima Europe tabula.jpg

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Ptolemy: Prima Europe Tabula   
Artist
Ptolemy  (100–170)    
 
Alternative names
Birth name: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος; Claudius Ptolemaeus; Claudius Ptolemeus; Claudius Ptolemy; Klaudios Ptolemaios
Description Roman mathematician, geographer, astronomer, astrologer, music theorist and philosopher
Date of birth/death circa   circa  
Location of birth/death Ptolemais Hermiou Alexandria
Authority file
  • : Q34943
  • VIAF: 54152998
  • ISNI: 0000000122800429
  • ULAN: 500330559
  • LCCN: n50032768
  • NLA: 35435417
  • WorldCat
artist QS:P170,Q34943
Title
Prima Europe tabula
Part of Geography 
Object type map 
Description
One of the earliest surviving copies of Ptolemy's 2nd century map of the British Isles. Originally published in Ptolemy's Geographia. This is the second issue of the 1482 map, also printed at Ulm, which was the first woodcut map of the British Isles and the first to be printed outside Italy.
Date 1486
date QS:P571,+1486-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 350 mm (13.77 in); width: 500 mm (19.68 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,350U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,500U174789
institution QS:P195,Q666063
Notes Scale not given
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  • The National Library of Wales
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