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Strabo, Rerum Geographicum Libri Septemdecim. 1571.

Claudius Ptolemy   (c.100 – c.170 AD)

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek-speaking scholar who lived in Alexandria during the second century CE, under Roman rule. Active around 100–170 CE, Ptolemy is regarded as one of the most influential astronomers, geographers, and mathematicians of the ancient world. His writings shaped scientific thought for more than a thousand years and formed a cornerstone of both Islamic and European scholarship during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Ptolemy is best known for two monumental works: the Almagest, which presented the geocentric model of the universe, and the Geographia, a systematic study of world geography. In the Geographia, he compiled coordinates for thousands of places and introduced methods for projecting the curved surface of the earth onto a flat map. Although many of his measurements were inaccurate by modern standards, his use of latitude and longitude established a scientific framework that profoundly influenced the history of cartography.

Ptolemy’s works survived through Byzantine and Islamic scholars before being rediscovered in Renaissance Europe, where they inspired a renewed interest in mathematics, astronomy, and mapmaking. Printed editions of the Geographia, including the famous Ulm editions of 1482 and 1486, brought his ideas to a wider audience and became foundational texts in the development of early modern geography.

Today, Ptolemy is remembered not only for the accuracy of his observations but also for his ambition to organise and describe the known world through mathematics and reason. His legacy marks a crucial bridge between the scientific traditions of antiquity and the intellectual revival of the Renaissance.

Strabo (c. 63 BC - c. 21 AD)

Strabo was a Greek geographer and historian who travelled in Europe, Africa and Asia and influenced later geographers. He compiled the Geographia, a world geography presenting a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known during his lifetime.
His work was first published in 1469, and many later editions followed in the 15th and 16th centuries, some of them illustrated with Ptolemy maps.

 

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Rerum Geographicum Libri Septemdecim.

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STRABO (63 BC – c. AD 24)  Strabonis Nobilissimi Et Doctissimi Philosophi Ac Geographi RERUM GEOGRAPHICUM commentarij libris XVII contenti Latini facti Gvilielmo Xylandro Augustano interprete. Basel, Henricpetri, 1571.

Sheepskin binding. 27 double-page woodcut maps by Sebastian Münster and 7 small woodcuts in text by Johann Honter and others.

Third edition translated and edited by Xylander (= pseudonym for Holzman, 1532-1576) with Greek and Latin parallel texts. The blocks used were the same as those Münster used for four editions of Ptolemy's Geographia.

This is an early edition of Strabo's Geography, one of the earliest and most important scientific treatises on historical geography, and Strabo's only surviving work. The Geographia represents an initial attempt to compile geographical knowledge in a unified manner. The work provides a survey of the topographical, historical, and political characteristics of the principal regions of the Roman world, and also includes information on philosophy, political theory, geology, mathematics, science, and history.

Claudius Ptolemy   (c.100 – c.170 AD)

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek-speaking scholar who lived in Alexandria during the second century CE, under Roman rule. Active around 100–170 CE, Ptolemy is regarded as one of the most influential astronomers, geographers, and mathematicians of the ancient world. His writings shaped scientific thought for more than a thousand years and formed a cornerstone of both Islamic and European scholarship during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Ptolemy is best known for two monumental works: the Almagest, which presented the geocentric model of the universe, and the Geographia, a systematic study of world geography. In the Geographia, he compiled coordinates for thousands of places and introduced methods for projecting the curved surface of the earth onto a flat map. Although many of his measurements were inaccurate by modern standards, his use of latitude and longitude established a scientific framework that profoundly influenced the history of cartography.

Ptolemy’s works survived through Byzantine and Islamic scholars before being rediscovered in Renaissance Europe, where they inspired a renewed interest in mathematics, astronomy, and mapmaking. Printed editions of the Geographia, including the famous Ulm editions of 1482 and 1486, brought his ideas to a wider audience and became foundational texts in the development of early modern geography.

Today, Ptolemy is remembered not only for the accuracy of his observations but also for his ambition to organise and describe the known world through mathematics and reason. His legacy marks a crucial bridge between the scientific traditions of antiquity and the intellectual revival of the Renaissance.

Strabo (c. 63 BC - c. 21 AD)

Strabo was a Greek geographer and historian who travelled in Europe, Africa and Asia and influenced later geographers. He compiled the Geographia, a world geography presenting a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known during his lifetime.
His work was first published in 1469, and many later editions followed in the 15th and 16th centuries, some of them illustrated with Ptolemy maps.

 

References: Adams H.M. - S-1907; Phillips (Atlases) - #3390; Shirley (Brit.Lib.) - G.STR-1a; Nordenskiold - #287
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