Aurora Ancient Maps Ptolemy

Aurora Ancient Maps Ptolemy

Aurora celebrates with a new Limited Edition Collection the Ancient Maps that have allowed Man to discover Uncharted Lands.

An Ancient Map reveals not only the hope of discovery, passion for exploration, but also denotes how the world has been delineated and revealed, up to what we know today.

Our journey through the ancient maps begins in the city of Alexandria in Egypt once home to the grandiose Library where approximately in 150 A.D. the geographer Claudius Ptolemy drew the first geographical map of the known world, making use of a grid of geometric lines, corresponding to to latitude and longitude.

When Ptolemy's work first appeared in Europe revolutionised continental cartography. The traditional arrangement of the medieval maps with the east at the top (from which the term orientation derives) was replaced by the north-south axis, to which the modern grid was added cartographic still in use today.

Blue mottled Auroloid fountain pen with gold nib massive 18 kt. rhodium-plated. 925‰ solid silver finishes.

Special armillary head and rose back of the winds in 925‰ solid silver.

Limited and numbered edition of only 680 pieces.