The Geography (1482) - Page 4

Region	Longitude	Latitude
Marmarica original: Armarica; a coastal region in North Africa between Cyrenaica and Egypt	42	28
Libya	57	29
Lower Egypt	61	30
Thebaid Egypt Upper Egypt, named for its capital at Thebes	62	24
Libya of Africa The Roman province of Libya, distinct from the broader continent	18	22
Ethiopia above Egypt	62	12
Ethiopia, more southern than all these	40 (south)	12

There are forty-eight provinces of Great Asia

IN THE FIFTH BOOK

Region	Longitude	Latitude
Pontus	48	48
Bithynia	55	38
That which is properly called Asia Asia Minor, specifically the Roman province of Asia	58	68
Greater Phrygia	60	38
Lycia	60	37
Galatia	62	41
Paphlagonia and Pisidia	62	43
Pamphylia and Isauria	61	37
Cappadocia	65	39
Armenia Minor	71	39
Cilicia	68	37
Asiatic Sarmatia	74	54
Colchis	73	45
Iberia An ancient kingdom in the Caucasus, not the Spanish peninsula	75	45
Albania Caucasian Albania, located in the eastern Caucasus	78	45
Armenia Maior	77	41
Island of Cyprus	66	35
Coele-Syria original: Syria cava; "Hollow Syria," the valley between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains	71	36
Phoenician Syria	71	33
Palestinian Syria and Judea	67	31
Arabia Petraea The northwestern Arabian Peninsula, named for the city of Petra	68	31
Mesopotamia	73	37
Arabia Deserta The desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula	75	32
Babylonia	78	32

IN THE SIXTH BOOK

Region	Longitude	Latitude
Assyria	80	37
Susiana	84	34
Media	83	39
Persis	90	32
Parthia	96	37
Carmania Deserta	96	32
The other Carmania	99	25
Arabia Felix "Happy Arabia," the fertile southern part of the peninsula	86	22
Hyrcania	95	40
Margiana	103	40
Bactriana	116	41
Sogdiana original: Sodiana	113	44
Saccae original: Saces; nomadic tribes of Central Asia	130	45
Scythia within the Imaus Mountains	120	56
Scythia outside the Imaus Mountains	150	48
Serica The land of silk, northern China	162	45
Aria	104	37
Paropanisadae	117	35
Drangiana	108	35
Arachosia	115	30
Gedrosia	115	25

IN THE SEVENTH BOOK

Region	Longitude	Latitude
India within the Ganges	132	27
India outside the Ganges	132	27
Region of the Sinae China	172	16
Island of Taprobane Sri Lanka	124	3

All our habitable provinces total ninety-four.

For as many peoples as live beneath the zodiac, the sun is twice directly overhead as it descends from the north to the south. Likewise, as it ascends, it is overhead twice, which happens once a year for others, but twice for them. Furthermore, all those who live under the zodiac from the setting to the rising of the sun are Ethiopians Historically, a general term for dark-skinned peoples of the southern regions and are equally black in color; and those who are specifically under the equinoctial circle the Equator become abundantly black. However, those who live outside the perpendicular line original: linea cathetbon; likely a corruption of "catheton," meaning the vertical line of the sun at the zenith of the zodiac are milder in color and tend toward whiteness according to the proportion of their distance, all the way to the Hyperborean Sarmatians The "Far Northern" peoples of Russia/Eastern Europe. The same principle applies on both sides of the equator, toward the north and the south, all the way to both poles of the zodiac.

THE EIGHTH AND FINAL BOOK OF THE COSMOGRAPHY OF THE ALEXANDRIAN MAN CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY ENDS.

THE WORK OF LORD NICOLAUS GERMANUS ACCORDING TO PTOLEMY FINISHES.

IN THE YEAR 1482, ON THE 17TH DAY BEFORE THE KALENDS OF AUGUST July 16, 1482. PRINTED AT ULM BY THE INGENIOUS MAN LEONARD HOL, A CITIZEN OF THE AFOREMENTIONED TOWN.