| Tabula Peutingeriana |
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MAP DESCRIPTION The oldest surviving copy of the Tabula Peutingeriana was made by a monk in , Constantinople and Antioch , are represented with a special decoration. DISPUTES The Peutinger Table does not satisfy modern conceptions of a map: Longitude , which can only be calculated with an accurate clock, is highly compressed in comparison with Latitude . The table is believed to be based on "itineraries", or lists of destinations along Roman roads. Travellers would not have possessed anything so sophisticated as a map, but they needed to know what lay ahead of them on the road, and how far. The Peutinger table represents these roads as a series of roughly parallel lines along which destinations have been marked in order of travel. The shape of the parchment pages accounts for the rectangular layout. However, a rough similarity to Ptolemy's earth gives some writers a hope that some terrestrial representation was intended by the unknown author(s). EXTERNAL LINKS |
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