Al-Idrisi's twelfth-century map & description of eastern England -- brief post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/03/al-idrisi-twelfth-century-map.html …pic.twitter.com/8uRSTEtxWf
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Al-Idrisi's twelfth-century map & description of eastern England -- brief post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/03/al-idrisi-twelfth-century-map.html …pic.twitter.com/8uRSTEtxWf
Al-Idrisi's full 12thC world map, with Britain on the far right, bottom edge of the world: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/a/a1/20141217140029%21TabulaRogeriana_upside-down.jpg …pic.twitter.com/GcFw5SAIP6
It looks bizarre until you look at it 'upside down', and then you realise what a fantastic piece of cartography it is!
Absolutely! Such an interesting map :)
Seems to be a lot of detail of the Hebrides/Orkneys etc. Shows how important they were back then?
It's certainly intriguing!
Look how close Spain is to Cornwall! If only!
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