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Episode 8 - Eratosthenes and the Invention of Geography

The History of Exploration by Guillaume Lamothe

Feb 25, 201742:23Society & Culture

In this episode, we take a short step back in time and look at the invention of the academic discipline of geography by Eratosthenes of Cyrene, and the effects which a more ordered understanding of the world had on ancie...

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Episode 8 - Eratosthenes and the Invention of Geography is an episode from The History of Exploration by Guillaume Lamothe. In this episode, we take a short step back in time and look at the invention of the academic discipline of geography...

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Published Feb 25, 2017 and 42:23 long