MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
12408
File Name:
12408-014
Call number:
E683 M253d
Map title:
[top] Globe de Mella [middle] Globe de Posídoníus [bottom] Globe de Ptolomée
Place of Publication:
Paris
Publisher:
Chez Denys Thierry, ruë S. Jacques, à l'enseigne de la ville de Paris, devant la ruë de Plâtre
Publication date:
M. DC. LXXXIII.
Map size height:
21 cm.
Map size width:
13.5 cm.
Item description:
engraved map, vol. 1, fig. 67, p. 191
Geographical description:
[top] The globe according to Pomponius Mela. [middle] The globe according to Posídoníus "of Apameia" or "of Rhodes." [bottom] The globe according to Claudius Ptolemy.
Source author:
Manesson-Mallet, Allain, 1630?-1706?
Source title:
Description de l'univers, contenant les differents systêmes du monde, les cartes generales & particulieres de la geographie ancienne & moderne ... Tome premier
Source place:
A Paris: Chez Denys Thierry, ruë S. Jacques, à l'enseigne de la ville de Paris, devant la ruë de Plâtre, M. DC. LXXXIII.
Cartobibliographic notes:
Pomponius Mela (who wrote around 43 AD) was the earliest Roman geographer. Posídoníus "of Apameia" or "of Rhodes" (who lived around 135 BC-51 BC) was a Greek geographer. Claudius Ptolemy (who lived around 100-170 AD) was a Greco-Egyptian geographer.
Geographic Area:
Eastern hemisphere
Normalized date:
1683
LC bibliographic number:
b22293255
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[top] Globe de Mella [middle] Globe de Posídoníus [bottom] Globe de Ptolomée

[top] Globe de Mella [middle] Globe de Posídoníus [bottom] Globe de Ptolomée