How does the spatial description fulfill its goal? In this book, Yuval Shahar discusses these two questions, showing that the answers depend on the particular historian and the genre in which he is writing.
Vol. I: The Voyage Of Nearchus From The Indus To The Euphrates (Around The Year 325 B.C.) Collected From The Original Journal Preserved By Arrian, And Illustrated By Authorities Ancient And Modern.
"--Grant Parker, Stanford University "This edition is an extremely useful introduction to Eratosthenes and his work. The book is well conceived, well researched, and well executed, and it will benefit a wide range of scholars.
Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time.
But more important, he introduced the practice of writing down coordinates of latitude and longitude for every feature drawn on a world map, so that someone else possessing only the text of the Geography could reproduce Ptolemy's map at any ...