The geographical lore of the time of the Crusades : $b A study in the history of medieval science and tradition in Western Europe — John Shaqi
The geographical lore of the time of the Crusades : $b A study in the history of medieval science and tradition in Western EuropeWright, John Kirtland
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The geographical lore of the time of the Crusades : $b A study in the history of medieval science and tradition in Western Europe
Wright, John Kirtland
Geography -- History; Geography, Medieval
The Sea 61
The Lands 62
The Medieval Attitude Towards Landscape and Scenery Before
1100 A. D. 63
Esthetic Appreciation of Nature in Antiquity 63
Early Christian Attitude Towards Nature 64
Revival of Esthetic Feeling in the Middle Ages 64
Mathematical Geography and Cartography 65
Mathematical Geography 65
Maps 65
Macrobian Maps 66
T-O Maps 66
Sallust Maps 68
Beatus Maps 68
Regional Geography 70
Limited Geographical Horizon in the Early Middle Ages 70
Medieval Conception of the Known World 71
Paradise 71
Rivers of Paradise 72
Asia 72
Gog and Magog 72
Romance of Alexander the Great 73
St. Thomas in India 74
Africa 74
Europe 74
Explorations to the North 75
The Atlantic 75
America Reached by the Norsemen 76
III THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE MOSLEMS 77
Sources 77
Influence of Aristotle 77
Influence of Ptolemy’s “Almagest” 78
Influence of Ptolemy’s “Geography” 78
Az-Zarqalī and the “Toledo Tables” 79
Geography in Sicily 79
Edrisi 80
Influence of Sicilo-Moslem Geography 81
Oriental Ideas Transmitted to the West 82
Astronomical Geography; Theories of the Tides 82
The Great Years 82
Cosmic Cycles and Geographical Changes 83
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