Article ID: CBB205224077

Forma facta est: Agrimensores and the Power of Geography (2018)

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This article combines the fragmentary texts on surveying produced by Julius Frontinus, Agennius Urbicus, Balbus, and Hyginus found in the Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum with epigraphic evidence to consider the contribution that surveyors made to geography, cartography, and Roman cosmology in the first two centuries c.e.

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Authors & Contributors
Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Vera V.
Anne S. Dowd
Bilić, Tomislav
Metcalf, Alida C.
Horky, Phillip Sidney
Wallis, Faith
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