Notes on Ptolemy’s Geography
Raw notes blog
This blog is a repository for my notes on historical topics, based on source texts of various kinds including primary sources and modern secondary works. It may not be all that readable, but will help me keep track of these sources which I may wish to refer to elsewhere. Much of it is connected to 17th and 18th century research I'm doing for my Substack newsletter Diamond Pitt.
However, I also have an interest in earlier history and in particular the development and transmission of knowledge about the world, in the form of ideas, inventions, beliefs and practices, from the early centuries of the Common Era onwards. My starting point is Ptolemy’s Geography, a landmark text from the mid-second century CE.
Claudius Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 CE – c. 180 CE) was an Alexandrian, and despite his name probably not related either to the Claudian or …