februs > 29-05-2023, 07:11 AM
bi3mw > 29-05-2023, 09:21 AM
Quote:Diagram of the Winds (I) — "The T-O map of the inhabited world occupies the center of this wheel-shaped diagram. Twelve profile busts of the winds, their Latin names provided in encircling bands, are depicted in the diagram's wide outer ring; the narrower, unpainted ring just within it contains the winds' Greek names. The four major winds are associated with the four cardinal directions, with East located at the top of the wheel. The busts of the winds blow toward the Earth at the center of the diagram, and their breath, represented as green strokes, flows into the wheel's "spokes." Each spoke bears a brief characterization of the associated wind, and these are expressed mainly in the first-person, as if spoken by the wind itself. Thus, the spokes of this diagram function like speech bubbles in a modern cartoon."
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Quote:The diagram in BSB Clm 14300 illustrates the chapter on seasons (or literally “times”, De temporibus) and depicts the four seasons of the year according to their qualities (combinations of hot, cold, moist, dry) and cardinal directions. Winter (north) is cold and humid, spring (east) humid and warm, summer (south) warm and dry, and autumn (west) dry and cold. The connections and oppositions of the qualities and seasons are neatly illustrated with a circle divided by 4 + 4 arcs (qualities + seasons).
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februs > 30-05-2023, 09:44 AM
bi3mw > 30-05-2023, 10:48 AM
(30-05-2023, 09:44 AM)februs Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.by the way, what is 12 winds??
what does mean wind??
(30-05-2023, 09:44 AM)februs Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I tried to read Wind Diagrams and Medieval Cosmology..
but I couldn't copy the text, so I couldn't translate on google (´;ω;`)ウッ…
so I can't read it (´・ω・`)
Aga Tentakulus > 30-05-2023, 11:06 AM
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februs > 30-05-2023, 06:26 PM
februs > 30-05-2023, 06:32 PM
bi3mw > 30-05-2023, 07:22 PM
(30-05-2023, 06:26 PM)februs Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I would like to know a little bit why it came to be expressed that way..
Quote:Die antiken Grundlagen der mittelalterlichen Seekarten ( german title, in English: The ancient bases of the medieval nautical charts )
Author(s): Richard Uhden
Source: Imago Mundi , 1935, Vol. 1 (1935), pp. 1-19
Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd
The earliest example is the so-called wind rose of Timosthenes, about which again Agathemer gives the most detailed information. If one takes the opening words of the short summary in the sense discussed above, then they would read in the translation: Timosthenes, who made sea charts, reports about twelve winds" etc. The system of the winds appears to the Agathemer as the most remarkable at the testimony of the cartographic activity of Timosthenes. For us, the report reveals a map of the world arranged according to nautical criteria, which must have satisfied the highest requirements which were made in the time before Dikaearch to a comprehensive representation of the Oikumene. Timosthenes' distribution of countrys and peoples according to a 12-wind system starts from Rhodes as center; here their rays intersect at angles of 30°. It is the earliest, clearly recognizable archetype in the development of nautical charts.
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Quote:Timosthenes of Rhodes (Greek: Τιμοσθένης) (fl. 270 BCE) was a Greek navigator, geographer and admiral in Ptolemaic navy. He is credited with inventing the system of twelve winds that became known as the Greek 12-wind rose.
Quote:Timosthenes is also of particular importance because he is perhaps the first of the Greek geographers to go beyond treating the winds as merely meteorological phenomena and begin to view them properly as points of geographical direction. It is thanks to the Greco-Roman physician and geographer Agathemeros (flourished around 250 AD) that Timosthenes' wind table has been preserved, at least as a fragment. According to him, Timosthenes assigns geographical regions and peoples to each of the 12 winds - relative to Rhodes.
februs > 31-05-2023, 06:07 PM