but the Romans usually worked off an itinerary model, so orientation mattered comparatively less. Most medieval copies... /4
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or renditions of Ptolemy or Strabo orient North, but are often post-1400, as in this NYT article's pic http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/science/legacy-of-greco-roman-mapmaking.html … /5
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and of course Strabo's geography begins in the west with Spain, and sort of works east, http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/home.html … /6
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anyone else want to correct/expand on what i've said?
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just "medieval [European] maps"
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right.
@caitlinrgreen has written on al-Idrisi's map of England, oriented S http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/03/al-idrisi-twelfth-century-map.html …2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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& of course Arabic geography, like Latin, also comes (largely) from Greece & Rome
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Fwiw, Korean Kangnido map (1402) has N at top + incl Med & lighthouse of Alexandria :)pic.twitter.com/lbwRCuYAUM
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