Abstract
Man has always wished to explore, to know and to represent the places where he lives. Tracing itineraries to reach various places and identifying favourable sites for agricultural use were the beginnings of geography, which then became a science in the XVI century thanks to the talent and foresight of Leonardo da Vinci.
… for thousands of years every man had counted only his own territory but the measure of the terrestrial circumference will mark for the men the exit from the village; and every man, transcending the connection to his land, will become an inhabitant of the Earth…
Eratosthenes (275–193 BCE)
Greek mathematician–astronomer–geographer–poet
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Gomarasca, M.A. (2009). Geomatics. In: Basics of Geomatics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9014-1_1
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