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Hipparchus on the Latitude of Southern India

Strabo's rejection of Hipparchus' placement of India in favor Eratosthenes' reflects his misunderstanding of Hipparchus' cartographic methods, which preferred celestial observation over Eratosthenes' grid reckoning

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Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 45, 20101101, 359
2010