>>--- Martin Knepper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> It will be a nice fancy to imagine how a Pound
>>> domain would be to name -
>>> www.periplus.com?
>>
>>
>>Butt. . . shouldn't it be a plum not a plus--
>>periplum?
>>
>>wp
Addendum, or the poetry of non-fictionalism:
 
"The origins of the portolans have been much discussed[...]
Bunbury [History of ancient Geography vol.1, p. 587] points out that the
pilots of the Mediterranean had always their written periploi, and refers
to such works as the treatise of Thimosthenes of Rhodes [Admiral of the
Egyptian fleet under Ptolemaios Philadelphos] on ports, which gave the
distance separating them (between -285 and -247).
But for the most part this knowledge grew up in the technical patrimony of
seafaring men through the centuries and was not commited to writing by
scholars."
(Needham, Science & Civilisation in China Vol.3, 532-33)