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 | The Mapmakers: Revised Edition (Updated Edition) by John Noble Wilford Paperback, 507 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-375-70850-2 / 0375708502 ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70850-3 / 9780375708503 The Greco-Egyptian emperor Ptolemy III made a shrewd hire when, in about 240 B.C., he appointed a bookworm and poet named Eratosthenes to be the librarian of the great Alexandrian Museum. Eratosthenes, derided by his envious colleagues as a second-stringer, nursed an insatiable curiosity about t | |