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IN this most interesting and valuable book, Mr. Beazley shows us clearly the growth of geographical knowledge, carrying his researches back earlier even than 130 A.D., he tells us that the first maps and charts of the old world are due to Eratosthenes and Strabo. Ptolemy succeeded them, improved their work, and, where knowledge failed him, made errors himself; the author writes thus of his great chart: “Never was there a clearer outrunning of knowledge by theory, science by conjecture, than in Ptolemy's scheme of the world (c. A.D. 130).”
Prince Henry the Navigator.
By C. Raymond Beazley (Heroes of the Nations Series.) (Putnam's Sons).
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W. Prince Henry the Navigator. Nature 51, 532 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051532b0
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