It was more primordial: to help the map-holder grasp the idea of the whole world, with himself at ... came in the second century A.D. with Claudius Ptolemy. He was an astronomer and astrologer ...

He decided that a magnificent gift—a lavish map of the world—might maneuver ... One was the 1522 edition of the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, the other a collection of historical narratives ...

But the map ... Claudius Ptolemy; and charts of the regions of the western Atlantic newly explored by Vespucci, Columbus and others. Most significant, it depicted the New World in a dramatically ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician ... 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 ...