Sentence examples for ancient geography from inspiring English sources

But here is an ancient geography — effectively unheard of".

Paleogeography, also spelled palaeogeography, the ancient geography of Earth's surface.

He prepared about 100 maps and wrote on mensuration and ancient geography.

Altogether he wrote, edited, and collated about 50 works, dealing mainly with mathematics, philology, ancient geography, and the Confucian Classics.

Hibernia, in ancient geography, one of the names by which Ireland was known to Greek and Roman writers.

Plate 32 from: Atlas of ancient geography, biblical and classical... / edited by William Smith and George Grove.

Though the work was largely a borrowing from Greek sources and contained information that was frequently obsolete, it was unique among the ancient geographies in that it divided the Earth, which Mela placed at the centre of the universe, into five zones: a northern frigid zone, a northern temperate zone, a torrid zone, a southern temperate zone, and a southern frigid zone.

We might also say that this means that none of you has studied at degree level English, maths, a modern language, an ancient language, geography, history, drama, music, science or technology.

In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy.

Arranged chronologically, the reader is taken on a breathtaking expedition through Ancient Babylonian geography and Marco Polo's journey to the Mongol Khan on to buccaneers ransacking the Caribbean and the voyages of seafarers such as Captain Cook and fearless African pathfinders.

Morse sc". Probably issued in: School atlas to Cummings' ancient & modern geography.