This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
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book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not
illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...king who first carried out
the scheme of Alexander, and effected the circumnavigation of
Arabia, so as to open its coasts to Hellenistic traffic. We have,
too, the remarkable inscription of Adula, on the East Coast of
Africa, not far from the present Suakim, which an Egyptian monk,
Cosmas Indicopleustes, saw in the fifth century A.D. on a marble
throne set up by Euergetes to commemorate his visit, at the very
end of his reign. Luckily the monk copied the inscription, which
not only details the king's Eastern campaigns, but also his
explorations and expeditions to Southern Arabia, Abyssinia, and
Ethiopia, where he made highways, swept the seas of pirates, and
brought back elephants ALEXANDRIAN SCIENCE. l6l to be trained for
the purposes of war. It is possible that these southern campaigns
and voyages may account for his apparent indifference to
Hellenistic politics. The strides of science at this time were not
less remarkable. Geographical exploration was not left without
theory to gather and explain the facts. Eratosthenes, the father of
the scientific study of the earth, having learned that at the
summer solstice the sun cast no shadow at Syene (Aswan), in Upper
Egypt, noted the shadows at Alexandria, and at intervening places,
having measured the distance. He thus, by his " Science of
Shadows," discovered or proved that the earth was round, and
estimated the way from Syene to Alexandria was one-fiftieth of the
circumference of the globe. At the same time Apollonius was making
those researches into the properties of the section of a cone,
which led ultimately to the pure science of astronomy, and the
practical science of systematic navigation. The true method of
criticism was at the same time being applied by Aristophanes of
Byzantium, ...
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