This book started life as a thesis that was submitted for a D. Phil. at the University of Oxford
in 2016 and has been revised during my time as a research associate at the University of …

A History of Place in the Digital Age explores the history and impact of Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) and related digital mapping technologies in humanities research …

This essay seeks to explain the most glaring error in Ptolemy's geography: the greatly
exaggerated longitudinal extent of the known world as shown on his map. The main focus is …

This article attempts to shed some light on the origins of Ptolemy's map of the world, which
remains a mystery. The premise is that Ptolemy and other ancient geographers largely drew …

Traditionally, it has been considered that the Ptolemaic or classical maps from the four
editions of Ptolemy's Geography published in Rome (1478, 1490, 1507, and 1508) are …

This book is the result of a three-year doctoral research project that was conducted between
February and January within research area D (Group D-'Space of Nature') of the Excellence …

The lengths of the coastlines in Ptolemy's Geography are compared with the corresponding
values transmitted by other ancient sources, presumably based on some lost periploi …

Claudius Ptolemy composed his Geography in the city of Alexandria, one of the most
prominent intellectual centres of the Roman Empire. His work offers a comprehensive …

Ptolemy's map is for the first time compared with the data on the length of the coastlines
transmitted by ancient periploi. As a result, many close coincidences are traced between …

The paper deals with ancient methods of astronavigation and their potential use in finding
geographical locations in Ptolemy's Geographike Hyphegesis. Further, it describes the …