No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and Romans, yet we know that they looked to the stars and to the widening world around them and responded with their own influential cartography. Why the ...

Over the passes of time, ancient picture that resembles ... of geometry and surveying. 5. The cartography had been changed a little bit in the era of the Greek where a map of the Roman world ...

The Indian Ocean is teeming with sea monsters in Caspar Vopel’s 1558 map of the world. A giant swordfish-like creature looks to be on a collision course with a ship, while a walrus with ...

Office: Boswell 329 Phone: 757 221 2162 On Leave: 2023-24 Email: [[glirby]] Research interests: History of Science, Ancient Environment, Mythology Research Interests Greek and Roman Science ...