Image talk:Iran.jpg
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[edit] "Public domain" dubious
I've removed the {pd-art} tag from this image and tagged it as of unknown license. I don't know what the pd-art claim was based on. If it was on the belief that this image was the real, original world map of Eratosthenes, this would be patently absurd. It's quite obviously a modern reconstruction, and it looks like a fairly new print too, very probably not older than 1900. As long as we don't know the actual printed source, assuming public domain is quite definitely unsafe. Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:31, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- Okay, I checked it, and it seems to be okay after all.
- According to this webpage [1], this image is "as reconstructed by John Murray in Bunbury". That's garbled, but supposedly it refers to the following book: Bunbury, E.H., A History of Ancient Geography among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest Ages till the Fall of the Roman Empire. London: John Murray, 1883. Republished with new introduction by W.H. Stahl, New York: Dover Publications, 1959. (i.e. J. Murry is the publishing house; E. H. Bunbury is the author.) Bunbury died in 1895. ([2]), thus {pd-old} applies. Fut.Perf. ☼ 23:39, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
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