Note 168 — Chapter I · THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

Miller, Mappaemundi, vol. i, 1895, pp. 66–70, and vol. ii, 1895, passim; Beazley, op. cit., vol. i, p. 378. The Roman maps would seem to be in turn related to Greek maps of the Eratosthenic school in general form and extent. Some of them showed, doubtless, in addition to the orbis terrarum, an austral continent beyond the equator (see below, p. 385, note 58). While in a broad way we may accept Miller’s main conclusions that the cartography of imperial Rome exerted some influence over medieval cartography, it is not impossible that Miller is occasionally over-ingenious in his attempt to demonstrate specific relationships. See below, p. 458, note 17.