Al-Idrisi's twelfth-century map & description of eastern England -- new brief post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/03/al-idrisi-twelfth-century-map.html …pic.twitter.com/zr0gIOcS6X
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By way of contrast, here's an 11thC Anglo-Saxon world map w/ Britain on the bottom left edge http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2016/06/maps-monsters-and-marvels.html …pic.twitter.com/EIvdgew0Zf
Detail of Britain on 11thC map; Winchester+London marked & SW peninsula is exagerrated, as it is on al-Idrisi's mappic.twitter.com/vBeandW7a4
I wonder how Ireland wound up southeast of the Isle of Wight. That would be one heck of a tectonic shift!
On al-Idrisi's map? Don't forget, north is at bottom, so is showing it west of Cornwall :)
Oh! Well that's completely different! Ireland IS west of Cornwall, the last time I checked!
Interestingly, al-Idrisi has v little on Scotland; shown as peninsula off N.England (N at bottom), BNF Arabic 2221pic.twitter.com/MNupJUE0Yh
Scotland still appears to fare better than Wales!
Al-Idrisi's small 12thC world map from Oxford MS Pococke 375 fol. 3b-4a, w/ Britain unlabelled on the bottom right: http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/detail/ODLodl~23~23~126595~142784 …pic.twitter.com/AhzJYo6Pxi
Is it upside down? Makes more sense when I flip it.
Yes, south is at the top :)
I suspect he got lost regularly :)
Far Right, and at the bottom..predicted more than 800 yrs. before that #Referendum !
I knew that the Caspian sea was drying up, but yowza...
@Guedella And it was flat?
@rmathematicus Britain on the edge of the being far right... Seems a bit on the nose.
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