Lost maps of the caliphs : drawing the world in eleventh-century Cairo /
About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2018
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