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Claudius Ptolemy And The Nile Or An Inquiry Into That Geographers Real Merits And Speculative Errors His Knowledge Of Eastern Africa And The Authenticity Of The Mountains Of The Moon By William Desborough Cooley
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Book Synopsis Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile by : William Desborough Cooley
Download or read book Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile written by William Desborough Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile, Or, an Inquiry Into that Geographer's Real Merits and Speculative Errors, His Knowledge of Eastern Africa, and the Authenticity of the Mountains of the Moon, by William Desborough Cooley by : William Desborough Cooley
Download or read book Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile, Or, an Inquiry Into that Geographer's Real Merits and Speculative Errors, His Knowledge of Eastern Africa, and the Authenticity of the Mountains of the Moon, by William Desborough Cooley written by William Desborough Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile by : William Desborough Cooley
Download or read book Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile written by William Desborough Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile by : William Desborough Cooley
Download or read book Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile written by William Desborough Cooley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile: Or an Inquiry Into That Geographer's Real Merits and Speculative Errors His Knowledge of Eastern Africa and the Authenticity of the Mountains of the Moon Until ancient geography shall have undergone a through reformation, such as Niebuhr effected in Roman History, and be reconstructed on grounds strictly rational and authentic, it will not possess the precision and solidity of which it is capable, and without which it must ever remain a barren spot in the field of knowledge. It is in the earliest ages that the geographical element of history has most importance. Man then depends more on nature than on events. Allusions to trade and intercourse, handed down from ancient times, reveal the necessary steps of advancing civilization. They are intrinsically more definite and certain; point more plainly to cause and effect; and deal less with casualty than the records of war and conquest. But they are too essentially real to bear corruption. The narrative of events may not be the less captivating, or lees generally accepted, because it has been moulded into a romance. In the description of the transitory scenes of life, we may be, and often are, satisfied with verisimilitude; but in every reference to permanent nature we must have the truth, and geographical statements deficient in recognizable truth, soon become unintelligible, and consequently worthless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile by : William Desborough Cooley
Download or read book Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile written by William Desborough Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Walk across Africa by : Roy Bridges
Download or read book A Walk across Africa written by Roy Bridges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nile Expedition of 1860–1863 was one of the most important exploratory expeditions made in the nineteenth century. The long-debated question of the location of the source of the Nile was answered (despite continuing arguments) and the venture had important historical consequences. Earlier accounts of the expedition have assumed James Augustus Grant to have been no more than the loyal second-in-command to John Hanning Speke, the leader. This new edition of Grant’s 1864 book, A Walk across Africa, provides the opportunity to re-examine his role. The original text has been fully annotated with explanatory notes and also supplemented by extracts from the very remarkable detailed day-to-day journal which Grant kept. Even more unusually, this edition includes reproductions of the whole visual record which he made consisting of 147 watercolours and sketches. This was the first ever visual record of large parts of East Africa and the Upper Nile Valley region. These documentary and illustrative materials have been drawn from the extensive collection of Grant’s papers now in the care of the National Library of Scotland. The Library has co-operated in the preparation of this volume to make possible its special features. Grant emerges as a much more impressive and important figure than has previously been recognised. He was a trained scientist and his narrative is a well-organised perspective on the expedition and its activities. His own growing understanding of Africa and of Africans becomes apparent and helps to explain his later activities. The editor provides a context to the expedition and its results and this includes a new approach to the understanding of the Nile source problem by exposing the credulity of the way many previous commentators have used Ptolemy’s information and also by suggesting that the problem should be approached in the light of geological and geomorphological as well as historical information. The Introduction in addition discusses Grant’s work in the light of the development of the academic understanding of the history of Africa and of European involvement in the region.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of African Biography by : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Download or read book Dictionary of African Biography written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 3382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
Book Synopsis Sotheran's Price Current of Literature by : Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh by : Edinburgh University Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh written by Edinburgh University Library and published by Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable. This book was released on 1918 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stevens's American Bibliographer by : Henry Stevens (Jr.)
Download or read book Stevens's American Bibliographer written by Henry Stevens (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year 1885 Inclusive: A-L by : Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy (son of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt)
Download or read book The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year 1885 Inclusive: A-L written by Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy (son of Ismail, Khedive of Egypt) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Shaping of Africa by : Francesc Relaño
Download or read book The Shaping of Africa written by Francesc Relaño and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea of Africa and its evolution in Renaissance thought. Particular attention is given to the relationship between the process of acquiring knowledge through travel and exploration, and its representation within a discourse which also includes previously acquired cosmographical elements. Among the themes investigated are: How did the image of Africa evolve from the conception of a symbolic space to a Euclidean representation? How did the Renaissance rediscovery of Antiquity interact with the Portuguese discoveries along the African coast? And once Africa was circumnavigated, how was the inner landmass depicted in the absence of first-hand knowledge? Also, overall, in this whole process what was the interplay of myth and reality?
Book Synopsis West Asia in Turmoil by : N. S. Sisodia
Download or read book West Asia in Turmoil written by N. S. Sisodia and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the International Conference on Changing Security Dynamics In West Asia : Implications for the Post -9/11 International Systemic, held at New Delhi during 30th January to 1st February 2006.
Book Synopsis Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science by : David N. Livingstone
Download or read book Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science written by David N. Livingstone and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, David Livingstone and Charles Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning authority, and identity.
Book Synopsis The Eclectic Review by : Samuel Greatheed
Download or read book The Eclectic Review written by Samuel Greatheed and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Geographers by : Charles W. J. Withers
Download or read book Geographers written by Charles W. J. Withers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-seventh volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies includes essays covering the geographical work and lasting significance of eight individuals between the late sixteenth century and the early twentieth century. The essays cover early modern geography, cartography and astronomy, geography's connections with late Renaissance humanism and religious politics, 'armchair geography' and textual enquiry in African geography, medical mapping and Siberian travel, human ecology in the Vidalian tradition, radical political geography in twentieth-century USA, American agricultural geography and cultural-historical geography in Japan and in India. In these essays, GBS continues to provide detailed insight into the richness of geography's intellectual traditions and the diversity of geographers' lives.