Claudius Ptolemy (150 AD) map drawn from Ptolemy's coordinates for a 1482 edition of his Geographia (The Ulm Edition, Leinhard Holle) Lands beyond the bounds of the known world tantalized the ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Throughout the centuries, the mythical Stone Tower has been a fascinating enigma for geographers, historians, and ...

One of the most striking features of Renaissance maps are the sea creatures embedded in their cartography. More than just ...

Statue of Ptolemy. Charts have aided mariners ever since ... even plotted latitude and longitude lines on his atlas's 27 maps, though the farther one got from the known world centered on the ...

What do Ptolemy and ancient Chinese rockets have in common? Without either of these things, space flight wouldn't be possible ...

“It’s one of the most beautiful maps to have survived from the Renaissance ... One was the 1522 edition of the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, the other a collection of historical narratives ...

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 ...

As construction of a pipeline nears, an effort to preserve an Indigenous trail in Canada tests whether heritage management can keep up with advances in archaeology.

Eratosthenes also produced a map of the entire known world, which incorporated information taken from sources held in the Library, including accounts of Alexander the Great’s campaigns in India.

Now researchers have managed to recover the text written by Ptolemy on a parchment that suffered such a previous recovery attempt. Outermost six rings of the meteoroscope, not to scale.

Fitzroy Minerals Inc. (TSXV: FTZ) (OTCQB: FTZFF) (“Fitzroy Minerals” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a share exchange agreement (the “Definitive Agreement”) dated ...