File:Flat Earth Wonders of Creation.jpeg

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Flat_Earth_Wonders_of_Creation.jpeg(175 × 312 pixels, file size: 21 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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"This geographical treatise and collection of wondrous tales was exceedingly popular in mediaeval and early modern Islamic society. The map shown here is unusual in its portrayal of several creatures supporting the world in the firmament. While it uses a traditional Islamic projection of the world as a flat disk surrounded by the sundering seas which are restrained by the encircling mountains of Qaf, the map also shows the Ottomans' early use of geographic information based upon European cartographic methodologies and explorations."

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current05:08, 16 February 2015Thumbnail for version as of 05:08, 16 February 2015175 × 312 (21 KB)FuzzyCatPotato (talk | contribs){{PD-old}} [http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/earth.html Source] "This geographical treatise and collection of wondrous tales was exceedingly popular in mediaeval and early modern Islamic society. The map shown here is unusual in its portrayal of sev...