I present this as a curiosity, nothing more... The illustration - TopicsExpress



          

I present this as a curiosity, nothing more... The illustration of the Crates of Mallus globe is from Edward Luther Stevenson, ‘Terrestrial and Celestial Globes’, 1921. Stevenson relates the view that still prevails amongst historians when he tells us that in ancient times: “The idea of the existence of an antipodal people was put forth as a speculative problem, an idea frequently discussed… and settled only by the actual discovery of antipodal regions and antipodal peoples in the day of great transoceanic discoveries.”
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 06:40:25 +0000

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