What Columbus Didn’t Know
Peter Green: The history of cartography, 21 February 2002
The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek, the Man who Discovered Britain
by Barry Cunliffe.
Allen Lane, 182 pp., £12.99, October 2001,0 7139 9509 2 Show More
by Barry Cunliffe.
Allen Lane, 182 pp., £12.99, October 2001,
Ptolemy’s Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters
edited by J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones.
Princeton, 232 pp., £17.95, January 2002,0 691 09259 1 Show More
edited by J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander Jones.
Princeton, 232 pp., £17.95, January 2002,
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Atlas and Map-By-Map Directory
by Richard J.A. Talbert.
Princeton, three volumes, £300, September 2000,9780691031699 Show More
by Richard J.A. Talbert.
Princeton, three volumes, £300, September 2000,
“... Ptolemy’s first projection, preserved in a famous MS of about 1300, and reproduced as one of Berggren and Jones’s splendid full-colour plates. The basic outline of the Mediterranean is now recognisable; so is the Arabian peninsula. Eastward we see a foreshortened India, and a hugely exaggerated Taprobane (Sri Lanka). The further from Alexandria, the ... ”
