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Pytheas (c. 350 BC - fl. 320-306 BC)

Ancient Greek mariner and author of the lost work "About the Ocean." Strabo, Diodorus, and Pliny that he circumnavigated Britain, describing its inhabitants and climate and visited Scandinavian sites. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606413.001.0001/acref-9780198606413-e-5459?rskey=Cj6Xbh&result=1 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pytheas Authority - ancient
 Relevant locations: Lived at or near Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
 References in Documents:
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

8. A Fragment of Pythæas that ancient Traveller of Marseille; which we suspect not to be spurious, because, in the description of the Northern Countries, we find that passage of Pythæas mentioned by Strabo, that all the Air beyond Thule is thick, condensed and gellied, looking just like Sea Lungs.