The first great attempt to make mapping realistic came in the second century A.D. with Claudius ... map. What did he call his new technique? “Geography.” After the Roman Empire fell, Ptolemy ...

Much of medieval astronomy and geography were built on his ideas: his world map, published as part of his treatise Geography in the 2nd century, was the first to use … Close Advertisement ...

Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial Africa ... there is no denying that Ptolemy's map of North-Eastern Africa bears a wonderful resemblance to reality ...