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[Mark Knowles]

I suppose one thing that is odd is the variability in the represents of the rest of the non-European world. With some drawings presenting Africa as having towns and cities and being remarkably developed and other showing it much less so or not at all as in the Oresme case. Maybe this was due to varying opinions as to what these places were like and maybe at times a very Eurocentric prejudice. To be honest Oresme doesn't come across as being very clued up on this matter.

I think we have to remember the ignorance of the rest of the world that European people had at that time. Just look at the Hereford Mappa Mundi.