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Ptolemy: Prima Europe Tabula  wikidata:Q23308984 reasonator:Q23308984
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Ptolemy  (100–170)  wikidata:Q34943 s:en:Author:Ptolemy q:en:Ptolemy
 
Ptolemy
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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  Edit this at Wikidata circa  Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Ptolemais Hermiou Edit this at Wikidata Alexandria Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q34943
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Title
Prima Europe tabula
Part of Geography Edit this at Wikidata
Object type map Edit this at Wikidata
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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
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