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Episode 8 - Eratosthenes and the Invention of Geography
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, 42:23 long, audio available.
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