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Geography. Strabo
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isbn 4064066397128
Автор произведения Strabo
Жанр Математика
Издательство Bookwire
Strabo
Geography
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OK Publishing, 2020
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EAN 4064066397128
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Table of Contents
BOOK I.
INTRODUCTION.
SUMMARY.
That geographical investigation is not inconsistent with philosophy.—That Homer gives proof of it throughout his poems.—That they who first wrote on the science have omitted much, or given disjointed, defective, false, or inconsistent accounts.—Proofs and demonstrations of the correctness of this statement, with general heads containing a summary description of the disposition of the whole habitable earth.—Credit to be attached to the probabilities and evident proofs that in many regions the land and sea have been shifted, and exchanged places with each other.
CHAPTER I.
1.1If the scientific investigation of any subject be the proper avocation of the philosopher,