Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo
Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage-Smith
About a millennium ago, sometime between 1020 and 1050, in Cairo, a large illustrated book was completed. Its subject was nothing less than the entire universe, or what was then known of it. In the course of ten chapters, the
author moved the reader from the outermost sphere of the stars through the spheres of the five planets visible to the naked eye down to the sublunary world of winds and comets.
author moved the reader from the outermost sphere of the stars through the spheres of the five planets visible to the naked eye down to the sublunary world of winds and comets.
سب زمرہ:
سال:
2018
ناشر کتب:
The University of Chicago Press
زبان:
english
صفحات:
381
ISBN 10:
022655340X
ISBN 13:
9780226553405
فائل:
PDF, 21.16 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2018