One of the remarkable things about the Geographia is the number of editors who worked with itfor over two centuries after it initially appeared in print. For example, Laurentius Fries edited the Geographia for an edition printed in Strassburg in 1522 by Joannes Grüninger.
[World map from Ptolemy, Geographia, edited by Lorenz Fries. Strassburg: J. Grueninger, 1522. Click on image for an enlarged version in a separate window.]
Fifty maps accompany the text. In one map the name "America" appears in South America. This is the earliest use of the name in an edition of Ptolemys maps. In 1525, another edition by the same printer, again with 50 maps, was newly translated. It was edited by Johann Huttich.
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