A Thirteenth-Century Latin List of Ptolemaic Coordinates
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Nothaft, Carl Philipp, A Thirteenth-Century Latin List of Ptolemaic Coordinates, Mediterranea: International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, 2022, 7, 1 - 15Download Item:
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This article makes the argument that a Latin table of geographic coordinates, copied in Italy in the second half of the thirteenth century (MS Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 211, fol. 260r), is derived from a list excerpted from a Greek manuscript of the Κανὼν πόλεων ἐπισήμων (« Table of important cities ») contained in
Ptolemy’s Handy Tables. Other sources that appear to bear witness to a thirteenth-century dissemination in Italy of geographic data from the Κανὼν include the Summa de astris of Gerard of Feltre (1264/65) and some later coordinate lists contained in fourteenth-century manuscripts.
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Geographic coordinates, Greek-to-Latin translation, Gerard of Feltre, Ptolemy, Handy TablesSubject (TCD):
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