review of a very special book
Germania and the island of Thule With the decoding of Ptolemy Atlas of Oikumene "Berlin has a research team may include many places of the Rhine Germania locate the first two centuries CE reliable. Only 1892 was the presentation of Germania Magna of Ptolemy to the scientists' research of an enchanted castle, "as the classical philologist Karl Zangemeister (1837 - 1902) put it. The three of Zangemeister issues raised in this context - textual tradition, the sources of Ptolemy and his method for determining the geographic coordinates - were, in law since that date as a key to understanding the "Atlas of Oikumene. And although research has been conducted intensively on these issues for more than 100 years, it was only the team of researchers at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) to decipher the supposed mystery of the world map of Ptolemy.
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