Geografi (Ptolemy)

Geografi (juga dikenali sebagai Geographia, Cosmographia, atau Geographike Hyphegesis) merupakan kerja utama Ptolemy selain Almagest. Ia adalah risalah mengenai kartografi dan himpunan apa yang diketahui mengenai dunia yang geografi Empayar Rom pada abad ke-2. Ptolemy terutamanya bergantung kepada kerja-kerja geografi yang lebih awal, Marinos Tirus, dan gazetir Rom dan kuno Empayar Parsi.

cetakan edisi 1535, tajuk laman

Bacaan lanjut

• Berggren, J. Lennart and Jones, Alexander. 2000. Ptolemy's Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters. Princeton University Press. Princeton and Oxford. ISBN 0-691-01042-0.
• Cosgrove, Dennis. 2003. Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore and London.
• Stevenson, Edward Luther. Trans. and ed. 1932. Claudius Ptolemy: The Geography. New York Public Library. Reprint: Dover, 1991. This is the only complete English translation of Ptolemy's most famous work. Unfortunately, it is marred by numerous mistakes (see Diller) and the place names are given in Latinised forms, rather than in the original Greek.
• Diller, Aubrey (1935). "Review of Stevenson's translation". Isis. 22 (2): 533–539. Dicapai pada 2007-07-15.

Pautan luar

Sumber utama

• Claudii Ptolemaei Geographia, ed. Karl Friedrich August Nobbe, Sumptibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii, 1843, tom. I (books 1-4); 1845, tom. II (books 5-8); 1845, tom. III (indices). (Greek original).
• (Latin) Geographia Universalis, Basileae : apud Henricum Petrum, mense Martio, Venezia, 1540.
• (Latin) Geographia Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini, Venetiis : apud Vincentium Valgrisium, Venezia, 1562.
• Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber geographiae cum tabulis et universali figura et cum additione locorum quae a recentioribus reperta sunt diligenti cura emendatus et impressus (Latin translation, with updated (16th century) geographical positions).
• Ptolemy's Geography at LacusCurtius (English translation, incomplete)
• Extracts of Ptolemy on the country of the Seres (China) (English translation)
• 1st critical edition of Geography Book 8, by Aubrey Diller
• (Itali)Geografia cioè descrittione vniuersale della terra partita in due volumi..., In Venetia : appresso Gio. Battista et Giorgio Galignani fratelli, 1558.
• (Itali) Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo alessandrino, In Venetia : appresso gli heredi di Melchior Sessa, 1599.

Sumber kedua

• Ptolemy the Geographer Diarkibkan 2006-07-12 di Wayback Machine
• Ptolemy's Geography of Asia - Selected problems of Ptolemy's Geography of Asia (in German)
• History of Cartography including a discussion of the Geographia
• Dennis Rawlins, Investigations of the Geographical Directory 1979-2007
• Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance collected essays