Note 9 — Chapter I · THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
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Capella merely followed the Latin tradition, which tended to restrict the field of geography and at the same time to limit the science of geometry to the art of measurements. The De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii served to pass on to the Middle Ages this attitude in regard to geography and geometry (Mori, Misuraz. eratos., 1911, pp. 186–187; see also Haskins, Studies, 1924, p. 89).