Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 1

Chapter I

Terrestrial Globes in Antiquity

The beginnings of astronomical and of geographical science.--Primitive attempts at map construction, as seen in the Babylonian plan of the world.--Anaximander probably the first scientific cartographer.--Statements of Herodotus.--The place of Hecataeus, Hipparchus, Marinus, Ptolemy.--The Romans as map makers.--The earliest beliefs in a...