(03-01-2020, 07:12 PM)Linda wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I can see that interpretation, but look at the text of Oresme in du ciel et du monde book 2 chapter 25, he states the habitable part of earth would be on the upper right, although you are right, he says it is the part where they reside, which would make it Europe as well.
Well spotted! (p. 533)
The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in the vicomte de Santarem's book Essai sur l'histoire de la cosmographie et de la cartographie pendant le moyen âge, et sur les progrès de la géographie après les grandes découvertes du XVe siècle (1852) tentatively links the lower half, covered with water, to Arab geographers' ideas (Al Idrissi and Abu al-Fida). A hand-drawn copy of the illustration was first printed in his Atlas des monuments cartographiques du moyen âge.