Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies; with the Oceans, Seas, and Isles; in All Parts of the World: Including the Most Recent Discoveries, and Political Alterations. Digested on a New Plan, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1817 |
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Page x
... ancient geography must ultimately rest . The modern delineations of many parts of Greece and Asia Minor have thrown a light upon ancient history , which could never have been derived from theoretic geography , always useless , because ...
... ancient geography must ultimately rest . The modern delineations of many parts of Greece and Asia Minor have thrown a light upon ancient history , which could never have been derived from theoretic geography , always useless , because ...
Page xx
... ancient and modern names , not being sufficiently conversant with the history and literature of the middle ages ... ancients in the north of Europe , not to mention his assigning too great an extent to their discoveries in Asia and ...
... ancient and modern names , not being sufficiently conversant with the history and literature of the middle ages ... ancients in the north of Europe , not to mention his assigning too great an extent to their discoveries in Asia and ...
Page xxi
... Ancient His- tory ; and he seems to have retained a predilection for the erudition of ancient geogra- phy . It must be understood , that the dates in D'Anville's maps do not imply that he made no later improvements , for some were ...
... Ancient His- tory ; and he seems to have retained a predilection for the erudition of ancient geogra- phy . It must be understood , that the dates in D'Anville's maps do not imply that he made no later improvements , for some were ...
Page xxii
... ancient mathematics and astronomy , which are strictly connected with ancient geography . The itinerary measures , the mensuration of the earth , the ancient astronomical observations , the ideal zones , the climates as denoted by the ...
... ancient mathematics and astronomy , which are strictly connected with ancient geography . The itinerary measures , the mensuration of the earth , the ancient astronomical observations , the ideal zones , the climates as denoted by the ...
Page xxiii
... ancient and modern geography , which again to blend together , would be to forget the history of the middle ages , and to confound the whole science , no writer but Mentelle would have sought to have distinguished himself by reviving ...
... ancient and modern geography , which again to blend together , would be to forget the history of the middle ages , and to confound the whole science , no writer but Mentelle would have sought to have distinguished himself by reviving ...
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