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Title page of the 1620 edition of Isaac Casaubon's Geographica, whose 840 page numbers prefixed by "C" are now used as a standard text reference.. The Geographica (Ancient Greek: Γεωγραφικά, Geōgraphiká; Latin: Geographica or Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII, "Strabo's 17 Books on Geographical Topics") or Geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting ...
The Geography consists of three sections, divided among 8 books. Book I is a treatise on cartography and chorography , describing the methods used to assemble and arrange Ptolemy's data. From Book II through the beginning of Book VII, a gazetteer provides longitude and latitude values for the world known to the ancient Romans (the " ecumene ").
Mitchell has appeared at the Melbourne Writers Festival, Australian Short Story Festival and others, and he has won national awards for his short fiction. [ 5 ] [ failed verification ] His poetry, essays and stories have been published in newspapers, magazines and journals including The Age , The Sunday Age , Best Australian Stories and Poems ...
Strabo is best known for his work Geographica ("Geography"), which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known during his lifetime. [1] Map of Europe according to Strabo. Although the Geographica was rarely used by contemporary writers, a multitude of copies survived throughout the Byzantine ...
After two decades, architectural designer Scott Mitchell came face-to-face with a sentimental project, a 14-acre farmhouse previously owned by his close friend and collaborator, the late Sandy Gallin.
Bibliotheca geographica Palaestinae (1890). Summaries of over 3500 books on the geography of the Holy Land issued between 355 and 1878. [109] Karten und Pläne zur Palästinakunde aus dem 7 bis 16 Jahrhundert (1895). A catalog of the eight known Crusader maps of Jerusalem. In Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins Bd.18 (1895), pp. 173 ...
Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1790, [1] Bristol, Connecticut – December 20, 1868, Philadelphia) was an American geographer. Mitchell's 1846 map of Texas, Oregon, and California Mitchell's 1864 map of India, Tibet, China and Southeast Asia. He was born in Connecticut. [1] Mitchell worked as a teacher before turning to publishing geography ...
The story is first recorded by the Greek geographer Strabo (64 or 63 BC – c. 24 AD) in his Geographica (book 17, 33), written sometime between c. 7 BC and c. 24 AD: ...