Excerpt from Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Vol. 32 Pytheas of Massilia, the Greek navigator and geographer, appears to have been the first to have crossed the Arctic Circle, some three centuries before the birth of Christ, for he has left behind him a description of the twenty-four-hours day and a frozen sea. Irish monks journeyed to Iceland in 825 a.d., and Norsemen founded Arctic Colonies in Iceland and Greenland, nearly a thousand years ago, penetrating north of the 7sth parallel of latitude. The ...
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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Vol. 32 Pytheas of Massilia, the Greek navigator and geographer, appears to have been the first to have crossed the Arctic Circle, some three centuries before the birth of Christ, for he has left behind him a description of the twenty-four-hours day and a frozen sea. Irish monks journeyed to Iceland in 825 a.d., and Norsemen founded Arctic Colonies in Iceland and Greenland, nearly a thousand years ago, penetrating north of the 7sth parallel of latitude. The Black Death, in Norway, in 1374, caused these colonies to be lost sight of, and it was not till the end of the 1sth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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