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Terence: - It is a fact that the overseas maritime explorations in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries improved our knowledge of geography tremendously. Jim: - Well, we all know it. Why do you bring it up? Terence: - ---- Jim: - Naturally, the same view was held by the Church and also the crusaders.
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Ancient geographers divided the earth into five climatic zones that are still recognized today. |
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Actually, in antiquity, geography owed most of its development to the Hellenistic astronomer Eratosthenes. |
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The amazing thing is that, by means of sundials placed some hundreds of miles apart, the astronomer Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth. |
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For the simple reason that the world was understood differently and wrongly in the Middle Ages. For instance, medieval geographers regarded Jerusalem as the centre of the earth. |
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In fact, it was the Hellenistic astronomer and geographer Eratosthenes that first suggested the possibility of reaching eastern Asia by sailing west. |