Eratosthenes' "Geography"
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This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca. 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it. A polymath who served as librarian at Alexandria...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:069114267X
ISBN13:9780691142678
Release Date:January 2010
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.86 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 7.2" x 10.2"
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