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Detailed explanation-1: -Ptolemy’s most important geographical innovation was to record longitudes and latitudes in degrees for roughly 8, 000 locations on his world map, making it possible to make an exact duplicate of his map.

Detailed explanation-2: -In his work Geographia, written about AD 150, Ptolemy described and compiled all knowledge about the world’s geography in the Roman Empire of the 2nd century.

Detailed explanation-3: -Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and geography were built on his ideas: his world map, published as part of his treatise …