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Ptolemy did not need be concerned about distortion from projections because his map was baseed on:

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I believe the answer is: a flat earth

Disortion of projecton happen when we misplace a certain location on the map after projection the location on round earth to a flat map. Since the map that is used by ptolemy is already flat, there would be no chance for a disortion of projection from happening.

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