The purpose of the proposed book is to show how it developed as a result of many hundreds of travels, from antiquity to the middle of the 20th century, the modern (for 1956) idea of ​ ​ the physical map of the world, that is, how it was established: the presence of a single World Ocean and the approximate size of each of the four oceans; the contours of the continents, and therefore the outlines of the peninsulas and coastlines of the Mediterranean and marginal seas; the approximate dimensions of each mainland...