A Greek geographer and astronomer born in Massilia (now Marseille) who lived around 300 BCE. His main work, Peri tou Ōkeanou (Oceanic Countries), has been lost, but he is known to have explored Britain via Cadiz, visited Scandinavian countries, and reached the mouth of the Wisla River in the Baltic Sea, and to have even mentioned Thule in the far north. Thule would be today's Iceland or Norway. He calculated the distance from the northern tip of Britain to Massilia with almost perfect accuracy, and discovered that the North Star is not aligned with the North Pole, and that the moon influences the tides. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
前 300年頃在世したマッシリア (現マルセイユ) 生れのギリシアの地理・天文学者。主著『大洋諸国』 Peri tou Ōkeanouは散逸したが,カディスを経てイギリスを探検,北欧諸国を訪れ,バルト海のウィスラ河口にいたり,さらに極北の地トゥレーに言及したことが知られる。トゥレーは今日のアイスランドまたはノルウェーであろう。イギリス北端からマッシリアまでの距離をほぼ正確に計算し,北極星が北極からずれていることや潮汐に月が影響することなどを発見した。
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