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English: "Map of the World according to Claudius Ptolemy, cir. A. D. 150, an abridged sketch after a map in Bunbury's History of Ancient Geography", a world map using Ptolemy's second projection, based on the information in his Geography. From p. 265 of Vol. I of John Fiske's 1897 The Discovery of America.
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Source The Discovery of America, Vol. I, hosted at Hellenica World
Author John Fiske

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