Collaboration from Robert H. van
Gent
Several Ptolemy portraits can found in this book:
BENNETT, J.A., & D.B. Meli, Sphaera Mundi -
Astronomy Books 1478-1600, Whipple Museum of the History
of Science, Cambridge, 1994.
Page 142 has an elaborate title page with Ptolemy to the
left and Marinus of Tyre to the right from the pirated
edition of Antonio Magini's Geographiae universae tum
veteris (Venice, 1596), printed in 1597 in Cologne by
Petrus Keschedt.
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