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Publication: Atlas Curieux oder neuer und compendieuser Atlas ..., Augsburg. A 300 year old tourist map and guide of the countryside approx. 10 km.around Augsburg. When the Roman Empire was set to dominate the known world, it did not however include the bulk of Germany under its control. The watch on the Rhein was maintained by the Roman legions at the northern-most boundaries of civilization, but by the time of the Emperor Augustus, who decreed that all the world should pay a tax, the Romans had pushed their defenses against the northern tribes through the Alps as far as the Danube river. Thus Augsburg became one of the first settlements in present day Germany to come under the influence of Roman civilization and commerce and indeed bears the name of the Emperor Augustus. As the first major city that traders met after the Brenner Pass, it became the major metropolis on the northeastern flank of the Roman Empire. The map is extremely detailed showing roads and tracks, field boundaries forest areas, hills and escarpments. The stunde is a unit of distance defined to be 4800 meters (2.983 miles), approximately the distance a person can walk in an hour. The definition is consistent with the custom everywhere of informally adopting time units as distance units, as when we say "I live 10 minutes from school." Scarce. Fold(s) as given.
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