Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Lectures on the Geography of Greece by the Rev. Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Lectures on the Geography of Ancient Greece
Author: Gessner Harrison
Publisher:
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Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Lectures on the Geography of Greece
Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A manual of ancient history
Author: George Rawlinson
Publisher:
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Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Ancient Perspectives
Author: Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226789373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor’s rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226789373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor’s rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.
Greece, Ancient and Modern
Author: Cornelius Conway Felton
Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Ancient Greece
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN: 1615305629
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Frequently cited as a land that birthed civilization and culture as we know it, the impact of ancient Greece on the world cannot be overstated. Its flourishing city-states laid the creative foundations for much of the literature, drama, art, and architecture we enjoy today, while advances in governance and law have shaped the development of democracy. This lively volume chronicles the major events and achievements of this dynamic society and profiles some of its most notable figures. Numerous maps, illustrations, and sidebars transport the reader to the ancient, awe-inspiring past of the Hellenic Republic.
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN: 1615305629
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Frequently cited as a land that birthed civilization and culture as we know it, the impact of ancient Greece on the world cannot be overstated. Its flourishing city-states laid the creative foundations for much of the literature, drama, art, and architecture we enjoy today, while advances in governance and law have shaped the development of democracy. This lively volume chronicles the major events and achievements of this dynamic society and profiles some of its most notable figures. Numerous maps, illustrations, and sidebars transport the reader to the ancient, awe-inspiring past of the Hellenic Republic.
The Geographical Teacher
Author:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Printing a Mediterranean World
Author: Sean Roberts
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674068076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In 1482 Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over 100 folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse interleaved with lavishly engraved maps. Roberts demonstrates that the Geographia represents the moment of transition between printing and manuscript culture, while forming a critical base for the rise of modern cartography.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674068076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In 1482 Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over 100 folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse interleaved with lavishly engraved maps. Roberts demonstrates that the Geographia represents the moment of transition between printing and manuscript culture, while forming a critical base for the rise of modern cartography.
Geographical Teacher
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews" and other bibliographical material.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews" and other bibliographical material.