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 76
for all accurate surveying and map-making of any considerable part of the earths surface, aknowledge of the true form and size of the earth is indis-pensable. So I propose to refer briefly to this part of thesubject at the commencement of this lecture, and, as a start,will try to give you some idea… … Fig. 62. however this may be, little is known of this map, nor is itpossible to say now what it was like. Anaximanders mapwas improved by Hecatams, who lived in the same century ;but as neither of these maps have survived to our day, it isonly by our knowledge of the accepted geography of thetimes…
Cartography · Surveying
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