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Regions and Seasons: The winds, collectively known as Venti, have long been viewed as both bringers of good fortune and sources of chaos. In ancient Greece and Rome, the winds were seen as personas; gods who brought favorable or difficult weather to humans on earth. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (4th cent. BCE) named twelve winds, which are illustrated on this world map in the 1525 edition of Claudius Ptolemy’s (2nd cent. CE) Geographia. Carved from a woodblock – an early method of printing – this map names the four main winds that blow from the cardinal directions of north, south, east and west, along with eight minor winds.
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9g54xj66d
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[The World]
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map
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9g54xj66d
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map
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normalized
title
[The World]
description
Regions and Seasons: The winds, collectively known as Venti, have long been viewed as both bringers of good fortune and sources of chaos. In ancient Greece and Rome, the winds were seen as personas; gods who brought favorable or difficult weather to humans on earth. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (4th cent. BCE) named twelve winds, which are illustrated on this world map in the 1525 edition of Claudius Ptolemy’s (2nd cent. CE) Geographia. Carved from a woodblock – an early method of printing – this map names the four main winds that blow from the cardinal directions of north, south, east and west, along with eight minor winds.
date
["1525"]
year
1525
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
Latin
identifierLocal
06_01_007998
creators
Fries, Lorenz, ca. 1490-1531
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
World maps--Early works to 1800
Eastern Hemisphere--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
World
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
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1
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pubPlace
Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg]
publisher
Iohannes Grieningerus
Source extras
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sf268508b
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41688024w
extent
1 map ; 29 x 45 cm.
notes
Map of the eastern hemisphere showing Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa.
Waldseemüller's Ptolemaic map of 1513, redrawn and reduced in this publication by Laurent Fries.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes names of places and natural features.
Map border shows decorative windheads.
Includes climatic and latitudinal notes.
Appears in the author's Geographia, translated by Willibald Pirckheimer, with annotations by Joannes Regiomontanus. Argentoragi [i.e. Strasbourg] : Iohannes Grieningerus, communibus Iohannis Koberger impensis excudebat, anno a Christi Natiuitate 1525 tertio Kal[endas] Apriles.
Text in Latin.
Cataloging, conservation, and digitization made possible in part by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Atlas scanned by Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/claudiiptolemaei00ptol
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