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Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo

Name: Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo
ISBN: 9780226553405

Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage-Smith

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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.

Kategorien:

History - Islamic History

Jahr:

2018

Verlag:

The University of Chicago Press

Sprache:

english

Seiten:

381

ISBN 10:

022655340X