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Author	Michel Servet after Claudius Ptolemaeus
Title	Cosmographia Claudii Ptolomaei Alexandrini
Year of publication	1535
Language	latin

Artist	Michael Servet
Title	Ptolemy map of Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean: Tabula XII Asiae.
Date	1535
Medium	ink and colour on parchment
Dimensions	37.3 × 50.3 cm (14.7 × 19.8 in)
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Permission ( Reusing this file)	Copyright expired, PD-Art

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1st century AD

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Claudius Ptolemaeus

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