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
Robitzsch, Jan Maximilian
Franziska van Buren
Bilić, Tomislav
Tolias, Georges
Talbert, Richard J. A.
Steele, John M.
Journals
Apeiron
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Journal of Asian Studies
Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography
Geographia antiqua
Dae-Dong-Mun-Hwa-Yongu (The Journal of Eastern Studies)
Publishers
Hempen Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
University of Chicago Press
Loffredo
Il lavoro editoriale
University of California, Berkeley
Concepts
Cosmology
Geography
Astronomy
Science and culture
Cosmography
Science and politics
People
Colocci, Angelo
Seo, Myeong-ung
Ptolemy
Manilius, Marcus
Lucretius
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Time Periods
Ancient
Renaissance
17th century
Early modern
Choson dynasty (Korea, 1392-1910)
20th century
Places
Mesopotamia
Middle and Near East
Greece
Egypt
China
Rome (Italy)
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