Still, when all due allowance is made for these drawbacks, there is no denying that Ptolemy's map of North-Eastern Africa bears a wonderful resemblance to reality—just the resemblance that might ...

Claudius Ptolemy (150 AD) map drawn from Ptolemy's coordinates for ... Modern polar names derive from the Greek Arktos, for the great bear star of the northern sky, Arcturus, and Anti-arktos ...

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 ...