Ptolemy Map Of Arabia

Ptolemy’s based on 81° degrees north and south and 360° degrees east and west (of which he tried to map 180° degrees), the arab system based on 240° degrees around the world, and our. That bay is deeply indented and appears to contain two places, adari town and itamos harbour, on· its south side on a part of the coast which runs due east/west. Ptolemy/waldseemuller, sexta asie tabula, from claudii ptolemei viri alexandrini.

The map first appeared in the 1477 bologna edition of ptolemy’s geographia, which is all but unacquirable. (the map first appeared in the 1477 bologna edition of ptolemy, which is known in a single example.) the ulm edition was the first atlas overall to employ hand color as a regular feature. Ptolemy/waldseemuller, sexta asie tabula, from claudii ptolemei viri alexandrini.

However, it is believed that work on the rome ptolemy began in 1474 or earlier, so that the plates were probably prepared prior to those of the 1577 bologna edition.

Arabia according to ptolemy — his sixth asian sheet — is reduced from the original compilation by a. Arabiam felicem, carmaniam ac sinum persicum this map from ptolemy's geographia was published in 1578 and reprinted on many occasions between 1584 and 1704. In ptolemy's maps of arabia felix the most northern settlement on the 'persian' gulf side is coromanis, which lies north of a bay called sacer bay. Ptolemaic maps showing the arabian peninsula (arabia felix), the 6th map of asia in book 6, from six different printed ptolemy editions.