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Dear Doug,
These mistakes are taken by Gastaldi from Sebastian MÜNSTER?s
"Geographia vniversalis, vetvs et nova, complectens Clavdii Pto\lemæi
alexandrini enarratio\nis libros VIII., Quorum primus noua
translatione [Bilibaldi] Pirckheimheri (i.e. Willibald PIRCKHEIMER
-n.m.) ... Succedunt tabulæ Ptolemaicæ, opera Sebastiani Mun\steri
(i.e. Sebastian MÜNSTER -n.m.) nouo paratæ modo. ..., Basileæ (i.e.
Basel -n.m.) apvd Henri\cvm Petrvm, Mense Martio. An.[no] M. D. XLII
(i.e. .03.1542 -n.m.), [56] + 195 + [194] [=446] pg.
There are at least 3 editions of this work published in 1540, 1542, 1545.
At http://www.swaen.com/Munster1540.html you will find the 1540
edition. On the map 6, you will find the exact "mistake" as at
Gastaldi's map of Germany.
You fill have to consult also the text below the map(s).
I suppose that the region where DACIA is inscribed on Gastaldi's map
of Germany is the ancient Gothland /
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6taland
And because from Iordanes (6th century AD/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanes) we "know" that the goths =
dacians =>
Gothland = Dacia (in the mind of Gastaldi/Munster/etc).
Best Regards,
S o r i n
From: Douglas Sims
To: Discussion group for map history
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Subject: Re: [MapHist] Help! (Dacia in the Ptolemaic maps)
Dear Sorin,
I don't know the nature of the mistake you are investigating on the
Ptolemy map of Dacia, and the following info may be irrelevant to you.
However, since it involves another "mistake" concerning Dacia, it may
be of interest to you, and if you have any ideas on it, that would be
of interest to me! Recently I have had occasion to look into the maps
in the 1548 edition of Ptolemy by Giacomo Gastaldi. Very oddly,
Gastaldi has added a land mass in the northeast part of his rendering
of Ptolemy's fourth map of Europe (8th map in the 1548 Ptolemy,
roughly covering modern Germany), and he names it prominently in
capital letters "DACIA". This land appears still again on Gastaldi's
Ptolemaic 8th map of Europe (19th map in the 1548 Ptolemy, roughly
covering modern Poland and eastern Europe), again withe same name. I
have not been able to divine what Gastaldi's ration ale was for this
peculiar addition in the North Sea, which occurs in no earlier edition
of Ptolemy that I know of, nor can I imagine why he would apply the
ancient name for Romania to it.
Perhaps this information may be useful to you. Certainly, if you have
any ideas on this, they would be of interest to me.
You may not have access to the 1548 Ptolemy, and the two mentioned
maps have not been reproduced anywhere to my knowledge, though they
will both be reproduced in my book on Gastaldi, due to be published in
2012.
Doug
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