Ptolemy

:This article is about the geographer and astronomer Ptolemy. For Alexander the Great's general, see Ptolemy I of Egypt. For others named "Ptolemy" or "Ptolemaeus", see Ptolemy (disambiguation).

External links

Primary sources

• Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos at LacusCurtius (English translation, with introductory material)
• Ptolemy's Geography at LacusCurtius (English translation, incomplete)
• Extracts of Ptolemy on the country of the Seres (China) (English translation)

Secondary material

• Ptolemy at SkyScript - The Life and Work of Ptolemy
• Alexander Jones, "Ptolemy and his Geography"
• Ptolemy biography (Bill Arnett's site)
• Ptolemy's Geography of Asia - Selected problems of Ptolemy's Geography of Asia (currently in German)
• Ptolemy's Geography of Northwestern Europe
• History of Cartography including a discussion of the Geographica
• Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy): Representation, Understanding, and Mathematical Labeling of the Spherical Earth