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Digital Image: 1761 Map of Pomponius' Mela's Africa
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Title
Viro Optimo Maximoque, Minorum Gentium Patricio, Philippo Sydenham Africa.
1761 (undated) 7.25 x 9.5 in (18.415 x 24.13 cm) 1 : 42500000
1761 (undated) 7.25 x 9.5 in (18.415 x 24.13 cm) 1 : 42500000
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Cartographer S
Pomponius Mela (died 45 CE) was the first Roman geographer. He produced a short work, De situ orbis libri III, which would continue to be an authority well into the 16th century; geographers such as Ortelius would continue to mine Mela's work for data where modern authorities remained silent. Apart from Pliny's Historia naturalis Mela's work is the only formal geographical work in Classical Latin, and as such it remained in the curriculum well into the 19th century. More by this mapmaker...
John Reynolds (July 9, 1671 - July 27, 1758) was an English priest, teacher and scholar. He had a lifelong connection with the Eton, entering the school as a student in 1689. He earned his BA at exeter in 1694, and his Masters in 1698; he would earn a degree in Divinity at Oxford in 1718. He was ordained as a priest in 1729. He would become a Fellow of the school in 1733. He was a Canon of Exeter Cathedral, and a benefactor to King's College. His edition of Pomponius Mela's De Situ Orbis was published posthumously in 1761. Learn More...
Joseph Pote (1703?–1787) was an English publisher, editor and bookseller who carried out his business in Eton (and indeed appears to have kept a boarding house for students of the famous school there.) His connections with the school appear to have been many: he published the school's alumni catalogue in 1730, for example. Much of his output - for example, his 1761 edition of Mela, and his histories of Windsor Castle - are aimed at an educational audience.
A couplet ascribed to Eton boys of the 18th century complains of Pote:
Jos. Pote, a man of great renownPlus ça change. Learn More...
Buys a book for sixpence and sells it for a crown.
Source
Mela, P., De situ orbis, (Eton, Pote) 1761.
References
Not in OCLC or Afriterra.