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Ptolemy's Geographia was lost to the Latin West entirely and had to be recovered in the early fifteenth century through Byzantine and Islamic intermediaries, illustrating the incompleteness of the Church's institutional continuity with Rome.
Quick Facts
Born
c. 100 AD · Egypt (likely Alexandria)
Died
c. 170 AD
Nationality
Greco-Roman Egyptian