Article ID: CBB939625538

The World's Measure: Caesar's Geographies of Gallia and Britannia in their Contexts and as Evidence of his World Map (2018)

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Caesar's geographies of Gallia and Britannia as set out in the Bellum Gallicum differ in kind, the former being "descriptive" and much indebted to the techniques of Roman land surveying, the latter being "scientific" and informed by the methods of Greek geographers. This difference results from their different contexts: here imperialist, there "cartographic." The geography of Britannia is ultimately part of Caesar's (only passingly and late) attested great cartographic endeavor to measure "the world," the beginning of which coincided with his second British expedition.

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Authors & Contributors
Laura Manzoni
Zef Segal
Rathmann, Michael
Bertini, Maria Augusta
Jason Morris
Moser, Jana
Concepts
Geography
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Science and society
Science and art
Roman Empire
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
19th century
Modern
Renaissance
Early modern
Places
Roman Empire
Mediterranean region
Greece
Germany
Roman Republic
Nile River
Institutions
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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