( Massive 1018 pp. scholarly edition by a team of a dozen scholars that takes account of all known manuscripts, with facing Greek and German text, footnotes on manuscript variations, color maps, and a CD with the geographical data )

Translations are revealing transcriptions of a geographical text, a medical text, and some twenty pages of original notes addressing the issue of infant baptism.

* Circuit of the Earth ()-This work was probably the text written in explanation of the geographical maps which Dicaearchus had constructed and given to Theophrastus, and which seem to have comprised the whole world, as far as it was then known.

Besides other geographical treatises, it contains a fuller version of Ibn Fadlan's text ( pp. 390 – 420 ).

The first four volumes contained the text ( new ed., 1845 – 1863 ), the fifth the old Scholiasts, the remaining three ( called Onomasticon Tullianum ) a life of Cicero, a bibliography of previous editions, indexes of geographical and historical names, of laws and legal formulae, of Greek words, and the consular annals.

The fictitious entry described in the story furnishes deliberately meager indications of Uqbar's location: " Of the fourteen names which figured in the geographical part, we only recognized three – Khorasan, Armenia, Erzerum – interpolated in the text in an ambiguous way.

In 1577, cartographer Gerardus Mercator wrote a letter containing the only detailed description of the contents of a geographical text about the Arctic region of the Atlantic, possibly written over two centuries earlier by one Jacob Cnoyen.

The ( literally ) central identification of the theory is that the geographical feature referred to as הירדן, the “ Jordan ”, which is usually taken to refer to the Jordan River, although never actually described as a “ river ” in the Hebrew text, actually means the great West Arabian Escarpment, known as the Sarawat Mountains.

" The dialogue does contain some identifiably-contemporary British or Western cultural references, thereby showing its applicability to the Great Britain of the present, but the text of the play contains no explicit geographical place setting and no explicit time setting, rendering its setting in place and time simultaneously indeterminate and thus also broadly relevant.

Out of this trip came the 9 volume Voyage en Islande et au Groënland ( 8 text volumes, one of geographical illustrations ), which was said at the time to be the definitive study of the islands.

Other sons were Sidney Edwards Morse who also published a geography text, and Richard Cary Morse ( 1795-1868 ) who assisted his father in his geographical work and founded with brother Sidney the New York Observer.

His Explanation in Geography ( 1969 ) was a landmark text in the methodology and philosophy of geography, applying principles drawn from the philosophy of science in general to the field of geographical knowledge.

As such, some linguists such as Peter Schrijver suggest that the terms " Old Cornish " and " Old Breton " are geographical rather than linguistic, only describing whether a text was written in Cornwall or Brittany.

This phenomenon of what might have been taken for a piece of Umbrian text appearing in a district remote from Umbria and hemmed in by Latins on the north and Oscan-speaking Samnites on the south is a most curious feature in the geographical distribution of the Italic dialects, and is clearly the result of some complex historical movements.

Gmirkin also notes that a Ptolemaic-era geographical text in the Cairo Museum mentions the sites Baal Zephon and Migdol, listing four border guard stations and fortresses, the third being called ' Migdol and Baal Zephon ' thought to be located on a route to the Red Sea Coast and perhaps on the canal linking Pithom with the Red Sea, at or near Arsinoe.

Because some microformats make use of title attribute of HTML's element to conceal machine-readable data ( particularly date-times and geographical coordinates ) in the " abbr design pattern ", the plain text content of the element is inaccessible to those screen readers that expand abbreviations.

Among these are references to " Daw " and " Malal " in the work of al-Bakri in 1068, the story of the conversion of an early ruler, known to Ibn Khaldun ( by 1397 ) as Barmandana, and a few geographical details in the work of al-Idrisi.

This city, however, is notably more obscure, and is not mentioned in the standard medieval Arabic geographical texts, such as Ibn Khordadhbeh, al-Idrisi, or Yaqut al-Hamawi.

There was a rich variety of historical literature compiled by scholars, as well as encyclopedias and geographical works.

The work only survives in some 374 fragments, by far the majority being quoted in the geographical lexicon Ethnika compiled by Stephanus of Byzantium.

To supplement his ' new large Map of England ' from 1677, the English cartographer John Adams compiled the extensive gazetteer " Index Villaris " in 1680 that had some 24, 000 places listed with geographical coordinates coinciding with the map.

So as to rectify perceived oversights of Vakhtang's version, Vakhushti compiled his own comprehensive history and geographical description of the Georgian people and lands.

The identity of place ' Brahmavarta ', the Vedic state where, sages Manu and Bhrigu had given the discourse, and Manusmriti was compiled is also confirmed by the fact that the nomenclature used to describe, animals, birds, crops, trees, plants, house utilities, activities of people, geographical conditions etc.

With them sailed AGS Director Isaiah Bowman and three truckloads of geographical information compiled by Bowman and 150 geographers, historians, economists, statisticians, ethnographers, political scientists, and scholars of international law.

Madoz was distinguished from most of the politicians of his generation by the fact that in middle life he compiled what is still a book of value a geographical, statistical and historical dictionary of Spain and its possessions overseas, Diccionario geográfico, estadístico y histórico de España, y sus posesiones de Ultramar ( Madrid, 1848-1850 ).

The relative geographical isolation of the Brandywine population makes for a limited choice in mating.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

This traditional geographical definition is used, for example, in the latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, as well as the archeological community.

Regions as defined in this context are merely for statistical, geographical, geological and climate related purposes and do not refer to an administrative division.

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Among the letters of Julian are two ( 29 and 30 ) addressed to Alypius ; one inviting him to Rome, the other thanking him for a geographical treatise, which no longer exists.

Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.

Some Anglican suffragans are given the responsibility for a geographical area within the diocese ( for example, the Bishop of Stepney is an area bishop within the Diocese of London ).

Evaluating Collins ' approach, he considers " the wide geographical spread from which the material comes and the implicit assumption that linguistic developments would have occurred uniformly throughout this area " a weakness and concludes, " The character of the Hebrew and Aramaic could support a date in the fifth or fourth century for the extant written form of the book, but does not demand a second-century date.

Primitive medical technology provided limited means of protection for the aggressor and a battle's surrounding geographical regions.

Some sources also add neighbouring countries ( for historical, geographical and / or cultural reasons ):

Unlike with geographical maps, where many famous projections are known ( such as the Mercator projection ), the calendar projection is a matter of such triviality that no names for these exist in common circulation.

In the years following the Revolution, Concord's central geographical location made it a logical choice for the state capital, particularly after Samuel Blodget in 1807 opened a canal and lock system to allow vessels passage around the Amoskeag Falls downriver, connecting Concord with Boston by way of the Middlesex Canal.

The 15th census based on improved geographical information systems is planned for 2010.

The more modernist works focus on imperial systems in China and employ scientific method to analyze epochs of Chinese dynasties from geographical, genealogical, and cultural artifacts, for example, from Carbon-14 dating and geographical records to correlate climates with cycles of calm and calamity in Chinese history.

Arminjon, Nolde, and Wolff believed that, for purposes of classifying the ( then ) contemporary legal systems of the world, it was required that those systems per se get studied, irrespective of external factors, such as geographical ones.

They started a project known as INGRES using funding that had already been allocated for a geographical database project and student programmers to produce code.

The theorist Anthony D. Smith uses the term ' ethnic nationalism ' for non-Western concepts of nationalism as opposed to Western views of a nation defined by its geographical territory.

Among concrete examples of Modern human behavior, anthropologists include specialization of tools, use of jewellery and images ( such as cave drawings ), organization of living space, rituals ( for example, burials with grave gifts ), specialized hunting techniques, exploration of less hospitable geographical areas, and barter trade networks.

The American industry, or " Hollywood ", as it was becoming known after its new geographical center in California, gained the position it has held, more or less, ever since: film factory for the world, exporting its product to most countries on earth and controlling the market in many of them.

The city of Lille identifies itself as a part of historic Flanders, and thus as " Flemish " in the geographical and historical sense, and this is reflected, for instance, in the name of its local railway station TGV Lille-Flandres.

Some examples of FIPS Codes for geographical areas include FIPS 10-4 for country codes or region codes and FIPS 5-2 for state codes.