Volume 1

Atlas geographus: or, a compleat system of geography, ancient and modern / Containing what is most of use in Bleau, Varenius, Cellarius, Cluverius, Baudrand, Brietius, Sanson, &c. With the discoveries and improvements of the best modern authors to this time. Illustrated with about 100 new maps, done from the latest observations, by Herman Moll, geographer. And many other cuts, by the best artists.

  • Moll, Herman, -1732
Date:
1711-1717
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Credit: Atlas geographus: or, a compleat system of geography, ancient and modern / Containing what is most of use in Bleau, Varenius, Cellarius, Cluverius, Baudrand, Brietius, Sanson, &c. With the discoveries and improvements of the best modern authors to this time. Illustrated with about 100 new maps, done from the latest observations, by Herman Moll, geographer. And many other cuts, by the best artists. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For the Benefit of thofe that read the ancient Geographers in Greek or Latin, we thought fit to fubjoin a more parti¬ cular Account of their Geographical Mea- fures from Brietius, Part I. Lib. 3. Cap. 6. The ancient Meafures of the Greeks are comprehended in thcie Technical Verfes. Quatuor ex digit is conftdbat Graca Pa¬ lette Ilia ter in Spitame: jufto quater in Pede: Senos pert Orgia Pedes: Pelethro centejimm eft Pes : Arvus dimidium eft : Stadiumque coer- cet Achivum Sexcer^es: Stadia Affyriis ignota Pba¬ roque Triginta antiquis Parafanga, & Schoe- nus habebanu Pdefte is tranflated by the Latins Pal- mus parvus, and was of Two Sorts, the letter confiding of 4 Fingers, and the greater, which Pliny confounds with Spitdme, Spit ante contains 12 Fingers, or In¬ ches ; is tranflated by the Latins Dodrans, and lometimes Pedalis, and at other times Semipedalis, a Foot, or half a Foot Pes, now,, according to Herodotus, Lib. 2. contains 4 Pdefies, which is 16 Digits, and therefore fomething larger than the Roman Foot. Orgia, 0pylet, tranflated by the Latins Ulna, from the Arms extended, con¬ tain’d 6 Foot, or 4 Cubits; and this was of Two Sorts, one called the Juft Orgia, of 6 Foot; and the other, call’d the Great Orgia, contain’d 10,, according to Theophraftus. P let brum, or Pel e thrum, by the Latins call’d Jugerum, contain’d 100 Foot. Arvus, Ape#, 50 Foot; but by fome extended to 100 Cubits. Stadium, J)o/, or the proper Greek Stadium, meafured by Hercules with his Feet in the Olympick Field, was 600 Foot; when doubled, it was called Diaulos; and the Diaulos doubled, was call’d Dolichos. Parafanga, a Perfian and Egyptian Meafure, according to Herodotus, con- lifted of 30 Stadia; but this Mealure was various, according to Pliny, Lib. 6a Cap. 26. Schoenus : Of this Mealure there are Three different Opinions ; rhe Firft, ac¬ cording to Ptolomy, Pliny, Artemidorus, and Strabo, was of 30 Stadia: The Se¬ cond, according to Pliny, who feems to have forgot himfelf, Cap. 14. Lib. 12. is 40 Stadia ; and this he lays was taken from Eratofthenes; though in the fame Place be fays it was contra died to 32 Stadia, which is a Miftake, for it ought to be 30. The Third Opinion is that of Herodotus, who, Lib, 2. fays it was 60 Stadia ; and with this Hermogenes is faid to agree; Strabo feems to reconcile all thofe Opinions, Lib. 17. when lie obferves from Artemidorus, That this Mealure was various; that from Pelufium to Memphis it contain’d 30 Stadia; that from Memphis to Thebais it was 120 ; and from Thebais to Syene it was 60. He adds, That he has found it eliewhere to be 40. The Meafures ufed by the ancient Ro¬ man Geographers, are contained in the following Technical Verfes. Quatuor ex granis Digitus componitur unus : Eft quater in Palmo digitus : quater in Pede Palmus. Quinque Pedes Paflum faeiunt : Pafifiu quoq; centum Viginti quinqi Stadium dant: at Mil- hare. Olio dabnnt Stadia : duplicatum dat tilt Leucam. Digitus, the leaft of the Country- Mealures, according to Erontinus, con¬ tained 4 Grains of Barky laid Long- wile. Unc ia