The Geography System of Herodotus Examined and Explained, by a Comparison with Those of Other Ancient Authors, and with Modern Geography ...C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1830 |
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... overbalanced all the latter acquisitions . So that in Africa , Herodotus knew more than Ptolemy , vastly more than Strabo . For , it is certain , that Herodotus had a very positive , and in some degree PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS . 5.
... overbalanced all the latter acquisitions . So that in Africa , Herodotus knew more than Ptolemy , vastly more than Strabo . For , it is certain , that Herodotus had a very positive , and in some degree PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS . 5.
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... Strabo : for Herodotus knew that the Caspian sea was a lake , and describes it as such ; but this was afterwards either forgotten , or the opinion was overruled : and from the date of Alexander's expedition , to Ptolemy , the Caspian ...
... Strabo : for Herodotus knew that the Caspian sea was a lake , and describes it as such ; but this was afterwards either forgotten , or the opinion was overruled : and from the date of Alexander's expedition , to Ptolemy , the Caspian ...
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... Strabo , whose ideas of relative position seem to have differed but little from those of our Author : for we clearly discover his principal errors perpetuated in the systems of those geographers . Wherefore , reasoning from analogy , it ...
... Strabo , whose ideas of relative position seem to have differed but little from those of our Author : for we clearly discover his principal errors perpetuated in the systems of those geographers . Wherefore , reasoning from analogy , it ...
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... Strabo also . The cause of their perpetuation will be shewn in the sequel . His ideas of the proportional extent of the known parts of Europe , Asia , and Africa , were very de- fective for he reckoned the two latter much too small , in ...
... Strabo also . The cause of their perpetuation will be shewn in the sequel . His ideas of the proportional extent of the known parts of Europe , Asia , and Africa , were very de- fective for he reckoned the two latter much too small , in ...
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... Strabo . Others may have been corrupted ; and others again were probably no more than names of the principal cities of the several countries , applied to the countries themselves ; a custom very prevalent in the East , to the great con ...
... Strabo . Others may have been corrupted ; and others again were probably no more than names of the principal cities of the several countries , applied to the countries themselves ; a custom very prevalent in the East , to the great con ...
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