220 BC · 3rd century BC · Alexandria
Eratosthenes' World
A measured earth: the first grid of parallels and meridians.
Catalogue record
| Record stands for | A projection or reconstruction, not an artefact |
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Open questions
Looked at and unresolved. Listed so the gap reads as a question somebody asked rather than a field nobody reached.
- attribution
- Nothing drawn by Eratosthenes survives. What this record stands for is the reconstructed geography reported by later writers, not a document. Nothing can: the resolution is editorial, naming which modern reconstruction the essay follows and citing the ancient testimony it rests on.