Rectification of the ancient geographic coordinates in Ptolemy's Geographike Hyphegesis
A multitude of the ancient places given by Ptolemy in his <I>Geography</I> (~150 AD) are so far unknown. One of the main problems of their identification are the errors of the given ancient coordinates. The different kinds of errors are illustrated by examples. A new geod...
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| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2012-03-01
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| Series: | History of Geo- and Space Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.hist-geo-space-sci.net/3/99/2012/hgss-3-99-2012.pdf |