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The winds, known collectively 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. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (4th cent. BCE) named twelve winds, which are illustrated on this world map in the 1511 edition of Claudius Ptolemy’s (2nd cent. CE) Geographia. The map also features climate zones, shown here as horizontal bands that correspond to latitudinal lines across the globe. Marked with "CLI[MA]" in red, these zones number seven north of the equator and five south.
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st74cx99v
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[World map]
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obj
dtoType
map
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1
Source metadata
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st74cx99v
contentType
map
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normalized
title
[World map]
description
The winds, known collectively 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. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (4th cent. BCE) named twelve winds, which are illustrated on this world map in the 1511 edition of Claudius Ptolemy’s (2nd cent. CE) Geographia. The map also features climate zones, shown here as horizontal bands that correspond to latitudinal lines across the globe. Marked with "CLI[MA]" in red, these zones number seven north of the equator and five south.
date
["1511"]
year
1511
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
Latin
identifierLocal
06_01_007969
creators
Silvani, Bernardo.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
World maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
World
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
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pageCount
1
source
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pubPlace
Venetiis
publisher
Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho
Source extras
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sf268508b
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41688024w
extent
1 map : col. ; 43 x 57 cm.
notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Cordiform projection.
Map is printed in two colors, red and black.
Outer map border shows decorative windheads and zodiacal signs.
Appears in Ptolemy's Geographia, edited by Bernard Sylvanus. Venetiis : Per Iacobum Pentium de Leucho, anno Domini 1511.
The author's name is often given as Bernard Sylvanus (see Shirley entry 32, plate 35) or Bernardus Sylvanus.
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/claudiiptholemae00ptol
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st74cx99v
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map
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0
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photo
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