Chapter I: Terrestrial Globes in Antiquity 1

The beginnings of astronomical and of geographical science.--Primitive attempts at map construction, as seen in the Babylonian plan of the world.--Anaximander probably the first scientific cartographer.--Statements of Herodotus.--The place of Hecataeus, Hipparchus, Marinus, Ptolemy.--The Romans as map makers.--The earliest beliefs in a globular earth.--Thales, the Pythagoreans, Aristotle.--Eratosthenes and his measurements of the earth.--Crates probably the first to construct a terrestrial globe.--Statements of Strabo.--Ptolemy's statements concerning globes and globe construction.--The allusions of Pliny.