Article ID: CBB000024270

Posidonius vindicated at all costs? Modern scholarship versus the Stoic earth measurer (1974)

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Description A defense of Posidonius against modern critics of his estimate of the circumference of the earth.


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Authors & Contributors
Vander Waerdt, Paul A.
Schmidt, Katharina
Paparazzo, Ernesto
Marcotte, Didier
Kouremenos, Theokritos
Kidd, Ian G.
Concepts
Stoicism
Science
Psychology
Geography
Chemistry
Chemical elements
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
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