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INTRODUCTION

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DEDICATION OF DONNUS NICHOLAUS GERMANUS

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BOOK ONE

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What presuppositions are to be made use of in Geography

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How from measuring the stadia of any given distance although not on the same meridian it may be determined how many stadia there are in the circu...

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accounts of travelers

28

Attention must be paid to the latest researches because the earth in the 6 Concerning the geographical narrations of Marinus

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They are also corrected by measuring journeys on land

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They are also corrected by measuring journeys on water

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Ethiopia should not be placed more to the south than the circular parallel which is opposite the parallel passing through Meroe

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The calculation of the longitude of the earth corrected by land journeys

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The same calculation of longitude corrected by sea journeys

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Concerning the voyage from the Golden Chersonesus to Cattigara

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Concerning the things in which Marinus disagrees with us

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In fixing the boundaries of provinces Marinus has made some mistakes

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Of the inconvenience of the method of Marinus for delineating the habitable earth

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Of the convenience of our method of delineating the whole earth

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What must be done should one desire to delineate the earth in one plane

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Explanation of the meridians and parallels used in our delineation

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How the habitable earth can be shown in a plane map so that its measurements are in keeping with its spherical shape

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A prologue of the particular descriptions and a description of the western part of Europe including the several provinces and prefectures which are c...

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Hibernia island of Britannia

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Albion island of Britannia

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Hispanic Baetica

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Hispanic Lusitania

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Hispanic Tarraconensis

53

Aquitanian Gaul

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Lugdunensian Gaul

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Belgic Gaul

60

Narbonensian Gaul

61

Greater Germania

62

Raetia and Vindelica

65

Noricum

66

Lower Pannonia

67

Illyria or Liburnia and Dalmatia

68

BOOK THREE EUROPE MAPS VIX

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Corsica island

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Sicily island

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Sarmatian Europe

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Tauric peninsula

80

Iazyges Metanastae

81

Upper Moesia

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Lower Moesia

83

Thracia and the Peninsula

84

Macedonia

85

Epirus

88

BOOK FOUR AFRICA Maps IIV

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BOOK SIX Continued

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Susiana

135

Persia

136

Carmania Deserta

137

Carmania

140

Hyrcania

141

Margiana

142

Sogdiana

143

Scythia this side the Imaus mountains

144

Scythia beyond the Imaus mountains

145

Aria

146

Paropanisades

147

Gedrosia

148

BOOK SEVEN Asia Maps XXII

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128

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India beyond the Ganges

155

Location of Sinae

157

Island of Taprobana and those islands which surround it

158

Descriptive summary of the maps of the world

159

Description of the Armillary Sphere in which is represented the inhab ited earth

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Epilogue to the foregoing

162

BOOK EIGHT

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Crete island 92

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Copyright

Informaci贸 bibliogr脿fica

T铆tol The Geography

Dover books on history, political and social science

Autor Ptolemy
Editor Edward Luther Stevenson
Traducci贸 de Edward Luther Stevenson
Col路laborador Joseph Fischer
Edici贸 il路lustrada, 铆ntegra, reimpresa, revisada
Editor Dover, 1991
ISBN 0486268969, 9780486268965
Nre. de p脿gines 288 p脿gines