Transcription problem - f68v3 and Rosettes foldout

[Mark Knowles]

These figures exist in many different forms, also with four parts.
It is just possible that the upper left quadrant in Oresme's figure is air rather than fire.

Having read the text of Oresme on the page with the illustration that Linda very kindly referred me to it appears that this illustration does indeed represent a map as best I can tell. As it refers the the top right quarter as representing the part of the earth that is most habitable. I don't see how the text says that the other areas represent air or water. It seems that according to the text the bottom half and top left represent other parts of the earth that are less habitable. It does not mention Europe or Africa or Asia explicitly, but given that we have 3 parts of the earth represented and the one where the author is can be found in the top right the standard T/O map interpretation seems not unreasonable. I would say that this would be a unfair representation of Africa and Asia, but from someone with a Eurocentric perspective not surprising. Maybe I have missed something in the text that someone else has spotted, I mean this genuinely.