On Some Disputed Questions of Ancient Geography

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John Murray, 1857 - 128 Seiten
 

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Seite v - The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography edited by Dr. William Smith is a work of so much utility to the study of ancient history, and of such general importance to classical education and the progress of knowledge, that its extensive circulation wherever the English language is spoken or read may confidently be anticipated.
Seite 89 - The more frequented the route, the more populous the country through which it passed, the more civilized and lettered the people, the more nearly we find the reported distance to approach that standard [600 Gr.
Seite 82 - Egypt, to have been in the extreme limit of the tropical line, where the gnomon gives no shadow on the longest day, and Alexandria to be on the same meridian, at a distance of...
Seite 102 - Pliny, the most learned Roman of the most learned age of Rome, remarks as follows : — " Europe appears to be greater than Asia by a little less than a half of Asia ; and greater than Africa by the same quantity added to the sixth part of Africa. Europe is a third part of the whole earth, with the addition of a little more than an eighth ! Asia is a fourth, plus a fourteenth ; and Africa a sixth, plus a sixtieth.
Seite 110 - Stadium in hac mundi mensura id potissimum intelligendum est, quod Italicum vocant, pedum DCXXV ; nam sunt praeterea et alia longitudine discrepantia ut Olympicum, quod est pedum D ; item Pytbicum pedum M.
Seite 107 - ... that hypothesis in the proportion of the stade to the degree, as employed by Marinus and Ptolemy. Notwithstanding the imperfection of the work of Ptolemy, it may be considered as the extreme limit to which ancient geography ever attained, and it continued to be the chief, or rather the only, guide of Greeks, Arabs, and every other people, until long after the revival of learning. The many additions and alterations, which the text evidently received in the course of transcription, cannot increase...
Seite 75 - Stadium centum viginti quinque nostros efficit passus, hoc est, pedes sexcentos viginti quinque. Posidonius non minus quadraginta stadiorum a terra altitudinem esse , in qua nubila , ac venti , nubesque proveniant.
Seite 60 - But Ptolemy, after all. may not have been so much misinformed with respect to a communication existing between the lake and his Nigeir, if, as is now strongly suspected, the communication really exists, though in an inverse direction from that which Ptolemy appears to have understood.
Seite 101 - Thule, a region uninhabitable on account of the cold, was obliged, in order to preserve the aforesaid proportion, to give an undue extent to its length, from the western cape of Iberia to the eastern extremity of India.

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