Map possibly 'by' Claudius Ptolemy, Published by Giacomo Ruscelli in 1574.
Claudius Ptolemy (100 – c. 170 AD) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importance to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Ptolemy's second most well-known work is his Geographike Hyphegesis, known as the Geography, a handbook on how to draw maps using geographical coordinates for parts of the Roman world known at the time.
Girolamo Ruscelli was (1504 - 1572) was a literary man who, immediately after the invention of printing, earned a living working for a publisher on his own works or translating and often plagiarizing the work of others.
Among his best known works, printed by Vincenzo Valgrisi, were translations of various classics including a translation of the "Geografia of Ptolemy" published after his death, in 1574.
The maps published by Ruscelli draw on the ideas of Ptolemy. Some may be copies of Ptomely's maps but Ruscelli's work adds many of his own maps in the 'style' of Ptolemy.
