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Claudius Ptolemy was a 2nd century Greek scholar from Alexandria, Egypt who had a significant influence on cartography and geography. He rejected the idea that the earth rotates and instead believed it was stationary at the center of the universe. His most important works were the Almagest, which established the geocentric model of the universe, and the Geographia, the first atlas of the world to survive from antiquity. The Geographia defined cartography and established principles for constructing accurate
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- Otto Hand
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