10 Followers
10 Following
37 Posts
Associate Director, Arts and Humanities Research Council U.K. #ahrc looking after the spaces, places, platforms and people that enable creativity, innovation and impact in arts and humanities research. One-time Classicist.
And last: CUL MS Gg.1.10 f.45r – a diagram showing the predicted extent of the land and sea in the parts of the world not yet explored or known by western Europeans.
Next: CUL MS Gg.1.10 f. 41v – a diagram showing the hospitable and inhospitable climate zones of the earth: the central red band is too hot, and the upper and lower black zones are too cold, but the intermediate zones are (supposedly!) pleasant to live in.
First up: CUL MS Gg.1.10, f. 33v – a diagram showing the earth and seven major celestial bodies (the moon, Mercury, Venus, the sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) and their courses relative to one another through the zodiac.