Talk:Geographia
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"Geographia" is a latinized form of the greek title of the work. Standard english scholarship on Ptolemy's work (including Berggren and Jones cited here and "The HIstory of Cartography") uniformly use "Geography" as the title of the work. This is particularly important since the work has been refered to by a wide range of different titles, at different times and in different languages. In the Renaissance, it was frequently called the Cosmographia, for example. As such, I recommend that the title of this entry be ""Geography" (Ptolemy)" This would also necessitate a disambiguation link between Ptolemy's work and geography as a general field of knowledge. --Sean Roberts 17:51, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
