Love to see a book published in two thousand and nineteen that thinks there are things called the British Isles and that Ireland is in them!pic.twitter.com/D8Jkk7rmUk
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Ptolemy referred to the two major islands as "megale Bretannia" and "mikra Bretannia." Much later "Britain" came to be used politically to describe the nation that made up the majority of the islands.
Ptolemy is hardly a good basis for any terminology, and that wasn’t widespread use anyway.
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