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Author: Claudius Ptolemy Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus, (c. AD 100 – c.170)
was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer
Publisher: Laurent Fries (*1490 - †1531)
(Lorenz, Laurentius Phrisius) was a physician, astrologer and geographer, whose center of life was in Alsace.
Map title: Diefert Situs Orbis Hydrographorum ab eo quem Ptolomeus Posuit /Strassburg/ 1522
Description: The map is an amalgam of Ptolemeic and modern sources, with the British Isles, India, Sri Lanka and Madagascar all depicted in a particularly modern fashion. In the introductory text, Shirley notes "an ambiguous passage referring to the "Charta autem Marina" (ie. a Mariner's Chart) derived from observations made by the "Admiral" or Christopher Columbus.