The Eratosthenes-Strabo Nile map. Is it the earliest surviving istance of spherical cartography? Did it supply the 5000 stades arc for Eratosthenes' experiment?

zbMath0507.01002MaRDI QIDQ1837175

Dennis Rawlins

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

EratosthenesStrabomathematical geography

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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