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Figure 3:
A. Ortelius, Zelandicarum Insularum Exactissima et Nova Descriptio [1573]. Ant-
werp
Figure 4
: Ptolemy's world map (in: Liber chronicarum, 1493)
S. Y. Edgerton (1987) notices Ptolemy's legacy in Renaissance cartogra-
phy: he is exceptionally thorough when working with space and composi-
tion (e.g. his world map, mappae mundi). In addition, we can observe work
