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	Pytheas - LoveToKnow 1911
		PYTHEAS, of Marseilles (Massilia), a celebrated Greek navigator and geographer, from whom the Greeks apparently derived their earliest definite information concerning western Europe, and especially the British Islands.
		Of course this would be true had Thule been situated under the Arctic Circle, which Pytheas evidently considered it to be, and his skill as an astronomer would lead him to accept as a fact what he knew must be true at some point as a voyager proceeded onwards.
		Pytheas's notice of the depth of the Bay of Biscay, of the length of the projection of Brittany, of Ushant under the name of Uxisama, and of three promontories of Britain, two of which seem to correspond to Land's End (Beler'ion), and North Foreland (Kantion), must not be forgotten.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pytheas (1109 words)

	Pytheas - MSN Encarta
		Pytheas is sometimes called the first scientific explorer because of his concern to reinforce his discoveries with geographical and anthropological observations.
		It is not known whether Pytheas sailed to Thule, but he accurately described the freezing of the Arctic sea into discs of ice (known today as “pancake ice”)—a phenomenon that could not have been known to Mediterranean sailors.
		Pytheas ultimately continued his circumnavigation of Britain, accurately estimating its shape and the extent of its coastline, and, through observations of latitude, its distance from Massalia.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761582955/Pytheas.html (384 words)

	Eternal Idol » Blog Archive » Pytheas of Massilia and the Lost City of Apollo - Part 2
		Pytheas wrote of a temple of Apollo, but Irish mythology viewed places such as Newgrange as being the abode of fairies, while Newgrange itself was thought to be the home of Oenghus, the god of love.
		Pytheas does not tell us precisely how many priests sang or played the cithara at any one time, but the suggestion is that there were more rather than less, not least because the whole population of the island were viewed as priests, “after a manner”.
		Pytheas could not have know that this stroke of genius occurred to the builders of Stonehenge almost two thousand years before the Greeks employed it, but this is by the way.
	www.eternalidol.com /?p=357 (3293 words)

	Pytheas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pytheas was the first Graeco-Roman to describe the Midnight Sun, the aurora and Polar ice, and the first to mention Germanic tribes.
		The term used for "marine lung" actually means jellyfish, and modern scientists believe that Pytheas here tried to describe the formation of pancake ice at the edge of the drift ice, where sea, slush, and ice mix, surrounded by fog.
		Whether one or many, none of Pytheas' own writings remain, and extant accounts of his voyage are primarily contained in Strabo, Diodorus of Sicily and Pliny the Elder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pytheas (913 words)

	Pytheas: The Explorer (330 B.C.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pytheas decided to find these islands on his own, to locate the fabled sources of tin and to search for new deposits.
		In fact, Pytheas was the first person we know by name to have used it to calculate the latitude of Massalia, which he found to be 43' 1 I' North, almost matching the true figure of 43' 18'North for modern day Marseilles.
		Incredibly as this may have been to Pytheas and his crew, who had probably never seen a whale before, such pods of whales are common to those waters.
	www.ahepafamily.org /d5/pytheas.html (1294 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pytheas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		PYTHEAS, of Marseilles (Massilia), a celebrated Greek navigator and geographer, from whom the Greeks apparently derived their earliest definite information concerning western Europe, and especially the British Islands.
		Of course this would be true had Thule been situated under the Arctic Circle, which Pytheas evidently considered it to be, and his skill as an astronomer would lead him to accept as a fact what he knew must be true at some point as a voyager proceeded onwards towards the north.
		Pytheas was also the first among the Greeks who arrived at any correct notion of the tides, and not only indicated their connection with the moon, but pointed out their periodical fluctuations in accordance with the phases of that luminary.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pytheas (630 words)

	Pytheas : Pytheas of Massilia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pytheas was a Greek geographer and explorer, born: circa 380 B.C. Massilia[?] (today Marseilles, southern France), died: circa: 310 B.C. He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe around 325 BC.
		Pytheas travelled to Cornwall, important because it was the main source of tin, and studied the production and processing of tin.
		Pytheas heard of an island six days sailing to the north of Britain, called Thule, and visited it.
	www.explainthis.info /py/pytheas-of-massilia.html (618 words)

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		Pytheas' Ostimians are mentioned again and seem to be located on a group of islands that are north of France (Pointe du Raz) or Germany (three days sail) but are suggested to be the inventions of Pytheas by Strabo.
		Pytheas writes that the coastline of Britain measured over 40,000 stadia and that he personally encountered Thule and, in the surrounding northern region, the ocean becoming a substance neither solid, liquid, nor gaseous which could not be traversed.
		Pytheas states that Thule is the most northern isle of Britain (six days' sail from there north) and one day south of the frozen sea (which some interpret to begin at the arctic circle, but they'd be wrong relatively speaking).
	www.anctil.org /users/eric/rs-notes.html (15905 words)

	PYTHEAS - Online Information article about PYTHEAS
		treatise, in which Pytheas had embodied the results of his observations, rather than to a continuous narrative of his voyage.
		The countries visited, and to a certain extent explored, by Pytheas, were previously unknown to the Greeks—except, perhaps, by vague accounts received through the Phoenicians—and were not visited by any subsequent authority during more than two centuries.
		Pytheas was also the first among the Greeks who arrived at any correct notion of the tides, and not only indicated their connexion with the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PYR_RAY/PYTHEAS.html (2163 words)

	Pytheas
		Pytheas was the first Graeco-Roman to describe the Midnight Sun, the aurora and Polar ice, and the first to mention Germanic tribes.
		Whether one or many, none of Pytheas' own writings remain, and extant accounts of his voyage are primarily contained in Strabo, Diodorus of Sicily and Pliny the Elder.
		Frye, J. and Frye H. (1985) North to Thule: An imagined narrative of the famous lost sea voyage of Pytheas of Massalia in the 4th century B.C. Chevallier, R. (1984) The Greco-Roman Conception of the North from Pytheas to Tacitus (in Arctic, vol.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Pytheas.html (3862 words)

	For Whom the Stars do not Shine
		Pytheas was concilliatory to his brother, the banners and balloons about the house being much the same as they were on his last visit five years ago.
		Pytheas was too full of his own anger to listen to reason, or to accept that his brother's intentions were anything but malicious.
		Pytheas didn't know where he was going, all he knew was that he had to get out of that house, before his brother's presence suffocated him with wrath.
	transform.to /~mattyrat/whomstars/part4.html (2736 words)

	Pytheas Summary
		Pytheas sailed from Brittany to Belerium (Land's End) in Cornwall, the southwestern tip of Britain, which was the source of tin.
		Pytheas also stated that Thule had 19 hours of sunlight in summer and claimed that further north was a region of semicongealed water—possibly referring to the combination of ice sludge and fog found near drift ice.
		Pytheas also correctly described Britain as triangular, accurately estimated its circumference at 4,000 miles (6,400 km), and approximated the distance from northern Britain to Massalia at 1,050 miles (1,690 km), slightly less than the actual distance of 1,120 miles (1,800 km).
	www.bookrags.com /Pytheas (2075 words)

	Pytheas - Wikipedia
		Pytheas was a Greek geographer from the fourth century BC.
		He lived in Massilia (present-day Marseilles), and is famous for a voyage he made to the north.
		Unfortunately, the book that Pytheas wrote about his travels has been lost, and all we know about him comes from later Greek and Roman commentators, who were very critical of him and did not believe he actually visited the lands he claimed to have visited.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pytheas (203 words)

	Thule Summary
		Ultima Thule, Brettanike, and the Voyage of Pytheas of Massalia
		Pytheas had already noticed the lengthening of the day as he traveled north, and he stated that Thule had 19 hours of sunlight in summer.
		Pytheas also correctly described Britain as triangular, accurately estimated its circumference at 4,000 miles (6,437 km), and approximated the distance from northern Britain to Massalia at 1,050 miles (1,690 km), only slightly less than the actual distance of 1,120 miles (1,802 km).
	www.bookrags.com /Thule (2419 words)

	PYTHEAS Introduction
		The latest version of of the source can be found here and a demo can be found here (please note that the host machine is several years old and supports several other applications so be gentle, it's a small collection but possible searches include "java" and "perl").
		There are various ways of dealing with this but the approach in PYTHEAS has been to add an element that "points" to what the object is about and to supply a mechanism to support queries without requiring endless "drilling" down into multiple tables.
		PYTHEAS is exposed as an XML resource to any editing tool that can work with XML, from simple text editors to complex XML applications.
	web2.uwindsor.ca /library/leddy/people/art/pytheas/index.html (1938 words)

	PYTHEAS, of Marseilles
		The most important statement made by Pytheas in regard to Thule was that connected with the astronomical phenomena affecting the duration of day and night therein.
		2, 35) Pytheas is represented as stating that amber was brought from an island called Abalus, distant a day's voyage from the land of the Guttones, a German nation who dwelt on an estuary of the ocean called Mentonomus, 6000 stadia in extent.
		Pytheas was also the first among the Greeks who arrived at any correct notion of the tides, and not only indicated their connexion with the moon, but pointed out their periodical fluctuations in accordance with the phases of that luminary.
	www.ermeland.de /pytheas.htm (1094 words)

	The Anthropogene
		By the time of Pytheas the disparate tribes of the Veneti had been separated, one tribe in the northeast region of Italy and Slovenia, another in the far north, east of present day Estonia, and another in Brittanny.
		For Pytheas to continue his journey from either Gadir or Vannes meant that he no longer could rely upon Mediterranean vessels inadequate to the rigors of the Atlantic.
		Pytheas was no accidental tourist, he was a scientist, a geographer, and a spy in a sense.
	webpages.charter.net /anthropogene/arc_vol2_is9.html (2144 words)

	The Northern Lights Route - Pytheas
		Pytheas, the geographer, wished to gain more tangible knowledge of the infinite northern regions.
		This way of thinking is geocentric and, due to his calculations, Pytheas was able to conclude that the sun would not set at a certain time of year when it travels furthest north.
		Pytheas mentions an island called Thule in his account; this island was claimed to lie to the north of Britannia and at a distance of time that it took to complete a six-day voyage.
	www.ub.uit.no /northernlights/eng/pytheas.htm (341 words)

	The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe
		He hailed from the Greek colony of Massalia, now present day Marseilles [2], and in 320 BC, he published "On the Ocean", an account of his journey of exploration to what in his day was the edge of the known world and beyond.
		He puts Pytheas' life into its political and philosophical context, which includes some fascinating insights into how the people of the day viewed the world beyond the Mediterranean and how Pytheas' journey and the things he reported confirmed or challenged those accepted world views.
		In all likelihood, Pytheas went north in a bid to discover where they came from, although a pure quest for knowledge cannot be discounted as a major motivator.
	www.nnbtv.dircon.co.uk /Books/2002/Pytheas.html (1055 words)

	For Whom the Stars do not Shine
		Pytheas stood across the room from Lethia, not looking into her face, for the absolute hatred that sat there was too much for him to stomach.
		Pytheas showed him his ID, and while the guard was looking at it - it would only take the guard but the fewest of moments to realize that Pytheas was not authorized past this point - he surged forward through the pass, jumping by the guard's arms.
		Pytheas ignored the guard, and continued running, looking for an open door that was empty, but all the open doors had others staring out at him, blocking his way of escape.
	transform.to /~mattyrat/whomstars/part5.html (2551 words)

	Eurocomp - Pytheas MailGate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		PYTHEAS MailGate is a leading email product which allows mail to be collected from a variety of email accounts and be sorted, filtered and delivered into a Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino servers.
		PYTHEAS MailGate retrieves mail from Internet POP3 accounts and delivers it to the mailboxes on your corporate mail server, while applying Content-Checking rules which may modify the way the message is delivered.
		PYTHEAS MailGate provides a suite of management facilities to your Small Business Server 2000 or Exchange Server 2000 corporate email system which allows you to make use of these advanced products within your business without having to upgrade to expensive corporate email connections from the Internet.
	www.eurocomp.co.uk /product/pyth.asp (849 words)

	Pytheas (c. 330-280 B.C.)
		Strabo criticizes Pytheas severely: but in some important points is inferior to him in accuracy: as, for instance, in denying the projecting outline of the land of the Ostimii (Britanny), which Pytheas had indicated.
		He describes the gradual disappearance of certain kinds of grain as the traveller moves northwards; the use of fermented liquors made from corn and honey; the thrashing of corn in barns instead of open floors, as usual in drier and warmer climates.
		But Pytheas is also known for having led the way in the application of the new science of Astronomy to the accurate determination of the earth's surface, which we call Geography.
	www.usefultrivia.com /biographies/pytheas_001.html (477 words)

	NetworkingFiles.com - Enterprise Applications - PYTHEAS MailGate 2.20
		PYTHEAS MailGate retrieves mail from Internet POP3 accounts and delivers it to the mailboxes on your corporate mail server, while applying Content-Checking rules which may modify the way the message is delivered.
		PYTHEAS MailGate also handles outgoing mail, and by collecting several outgoing messages before sending them, it can help you to make efficient and economic use of your Internet connection.
		PYTHEAS MailGate has a sophisticated built-in scheduler capable to adjust its connection cycles to do regular downloads from the POP3 accounts, while taking into account outgoing mail activity.
	www.networkingfiles.com /email/pytheusmailgate.htm (125 words)

	BBC - History - Pytheas of Massilia circumnavigates Britain 330 - 320 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pytheas of Massilia circumnavigates Britain 330 - 320 BC From 330 BC, Pytheas of Massilia, (now Marseilles), thought to be a Greek scholar and sailor circumnavigated Britain.
		Pytheas described the Cornish tin trade with the Mediterranean and St Michael's Mount in Cornwall.
		Pytheas of Massilia circumnavigates Britain 330 - 320 BC
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/britain/iron_massilia.shtml (123 words)

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