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 | | Dicaearchus (350-290 B.C.; or 326-296 B.C.) pointed out the need for an orienting line - his ran from west to east, through Gibraltar and Rhodes - on his then highly esteemed world map (Raisz 1937, p. |
 | | Crates of Mallus constructed a globe of the four quarters of the inhabited part of the world, from Arctic to tropic, in the form of a half circle, ca. |
 | | Eratosthenes' map covered about 7,800 miles east to west, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Gulf of Issus, and 3,800 miles north to south, from Thule to Cinnamon Land (Brown 1949, pp. |
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