AGSL GeoDiscovery

Octava Asie tabula

Description:

Trapezoidal map of Central Asia and China. Relief shown pictorially. Includes names of places and natural features. In margin: latitudinal notes. From: Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus, emaculatus : cum tabulis veteribus ac nouis. [Strassburg] : Ioannes Scotus, Argentorati literis exce[r]pit, 1520. Martin Waldseemüller "edited an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, Strasbourg, Johannes Schott 1513 ... not credited to Waldseemüller although he compiled a special supplement of 20 modern maps of 'tabulae novae' to accompany it."--Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.

Resource Link:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9977073193506421

Identifier:

ark:/88435/jh343v80w

Language:

la and Latin

Creator:

Ptolemy, active 2nd century

Publisher:

[Strasbourg : Johannes Schott, 1520]

Provider:

Princeton

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Image

Subject:

Asia, Central—Maps—Early works to 1800, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)—Maps—Early works to 1800, Maps—China—Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu—1520, Maps—Central Asia—1520, and Maps

Theme:

Asia, Central—Maps—Early works to 1800, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)—Maps—Early works to 1800, Maps—China—Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu—1520, Maps—Central Asia—1520, and Maps

Spatial Coverage:

Asia, Central and Caribbean Area; Caribbean Sea

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

TIFF