Maps and map-making; three lectures delivered under the auspices of the Royal geographical society (1910)
Reeves, Edward Ayearst, 1862-1945, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) · London, The Royal geographical society · leaf 22
y of Susa,of the Bible, which is atleast as old as the seventhcentury B.C. Still earliermaps are in existence, ofwhich the plan preservedin the Museum of Cairo isone of the most interest-in o. This shows the basin o of Lake Moeris on the Nile,with its canal and theposition of towns upon itsborders,… … Fig. 3.—Eskimo Map. MAPS AND MAP-MAKING ftliftii:,; ill ;i niiniiiftfltt iftfflT complete in its way, and as these mines were worked inthe time of Rameses II., it is probable that the map datesback to about B.C. 1370. It is reasonable to imagine that the earliest of carto-graphical representations…
Cartography · Surveying
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