Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, Vol. 20
by Societe De Geographie De France
Acropolis of Athens
by Frederic P Miller, Agnes F Vandome, and John McBrewster
Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis (Historical Geography and Geosciences)
This book illustrates how literature, history and geographical analysis complement and enrich each other’s disciplinary endeavors. The Hun-Lenox Globe, constructed in 1510, contains the Latin phrase 'Hic sunt dracones' ('Here be dragons'), warning sailors of the dangers of drifting into uncharted waters. Nearly half a millennium earlier, the practice of ‘earth-writing’ (geographia) emerged from the cloisters of the great library of Alexandria, as a discipline blending the twin pursuits of Strabo...