Overcoming Ptolemy: The Revelation of an Asian World Region

by Geoffrey C. Gunn

This book explores the effects that the Ptolemaic template developed by Claudius Ptolemy almost two thousand years ago had on the cartography and worldview of Europe through and beyond the age of European discovery. It shows how this template was refined and ultimately overcome.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498590136
• ISBN13: 9781498590136
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"