29-07-2016, 05:39 PM
(29-07-2016, 03:08 PM)Marco wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Another possibility is that the T-O map does not represent "planet Earth" but Earth as one of the four elements. This hypothesis is maybe slightly less weak if one considers the circle at the bottom left of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and the possible "water" You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. at the bottom left of the Rosettes page.
Possible. I mentioned earlier in this thread that I thought the TO map in question to indicate 'the oecumene' as the part of the world with inhabitants (Asia, Aftica and Europe) basically a tag indicating planet Earth in the current form
However, I like to throw in another possibility: What if the current state we see is not the original one? Just imagine, for a moment, the T in the O (drawing the lines between the continent in the small appendix) was added at a LATER stage. Just imagine the O as 'empty circle' and see the link as the pulling/pushing force (tides) to the Earth circle - then I could imagine the empty O being the moon. Looking at the diameter and checking against the diameter of the Earth, that would fit in a decent manner of a bit more than a 1 in 4 ratio (Earth 11 Moon 3) what was well known back then since classical times. Would explain then the water and tides ?