Title: Octava Asie tabula
- Image data
- 1520
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Dates
- Coverage: 1520
Publishers
- [Strasbourg : Johannes Schott, 1520]
Summary
Trapezoidal map of Central Asia and China. Relief shown pictorially. Includes names of places and natural features. In margin: latitudinal notes. From: Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus, emaculatus : cum tabulis veteribus ac nouis. [Strassburg] : Ioannes Scotus, Argentorati literis exce[r]pit, 1520. Martin Waldseemüller "edited an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, Strasbourg, Johannes Schott 1513 ... not credited to Waldseemüller although he compiled a special supplement of 20 modern maps of 'tabulae novae' to accompany it."--Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.
Subjects
- Asia, Central
- Caribbean Area; Caribbean Sea
- Asia, Central—Maps—Early works to 1800
- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)—Maps—Early works to 1800
- Maps—China—Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu—1520
- Maps—Central Asia—1520
- Other
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (73.5, 96.39, 49.18, 34.33)
- Geometry: BBOX (73.5, 96.39, 49.18, 34.33)
Provider
Princeton
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Ptolemy, active 2nd century. Octava Asie tabula. [Strasbourg : Johannes Schott, 1520]. Image data. https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-jh343v80w
Format
TIFF
Languages
- lat