Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Geography -- Early works to 1800 --- Ferguson --- Kitchin

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Occupational diseases -- Early works to 1800 --- Medical geography -- Early works to 1800 --- Ramazzini --- Hoffmann

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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 and tutor to the future King Ptolemy IV, Eratosthenes created the terminology of geography, probably including the word geographia itself. Building on his previous work, in which he determined the size and shape of the earth, Eratosthenes in the Geographika created a grid of parallels and meridians that linked together every place in the world: for the first time one could figure out the relationship and distance between remote localities, such as northwest Africa and the Caspian Sea. The Geographika also identified some four hundred places, more than ever before, from Thoule (probably Iceland) to Taprobane (Sri Lanka), and from well down the coast of Africa to Central Asia. This is the first collation of the more than 150 fragments of the Geographika in more than a century. Each fragment is accompanied by an English translation, a summary, and commentary. Duane W. Roller provides a rich background, including a history of the text and its reception, a biography of Eratosthenes, and a comprehensive account of ancient Greek geographical thought and of Eratosthenes' pioneering contribution to it. This edition also includes maps that show all of the known places named in the Geographika, appendixes, a bibliography, and indexes.

Geography, Ancient --- Physical geography --- 913 --- History General geography and travel Ancient world --- Geography --- Geography, Ancient - Early works to 1800 --- Physical geography - Early works to 1800

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Commerce -- Handbooks, manuals, etc -- Early works to 1800 --- Geography -- Early works to 1800 --- Foreign exchange -- Early works to 1800 --- Balance of trade -- Early works to 1800 --- Marius --- Mun

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Ibn Abi al-Rabi', Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahim, --- Journeys --- Africa, North --- Afrique du Nord --- Description and travel --- Descriptions et voyages --- Geography --- Early works to 1800 --- Géographie --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Early works to 1800. --- -Barbary States --- Maghreb --- Maghrib --- North Africa --- -Early works to 1800 --- -Geography --- Géographie --- Ibn Abī al-Rabīʻ, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, --- Barbary States --- Africa, North - Geography - Early works to 1800