The Geography

by Claudius Ptolemy

Translated and Edited by
Edward Luther Stevenson

(New York, 1932, repr. 1991)

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Ptolemy's own maps have not survived. There are, nonetheless, a variety of medieval and modern reconstructions. Wikipedia has several of these which are zoomable, but not particularly clear. [See for example India and Taprobana. Wikipedia's main page for its collection of maps for Ptolemy's Geography is here.] Clearer are Heinrich Kiepert's World as Known to the Ancients and Ptolemy's World. Additional reconstructions by Heinrich Kiepert and other cartographers are available on our Maps Page.


Book 7


India, this side of the Ganges
India, beyond the Ganges
Location of Sinae
Location of Taprobana

Descriptive summary of the maps of the world
Description of the Armillary Sphere
General summary


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