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A decade ago Sabine Réthoré, a French mapmaker based near Marseille, tilted the map of the Mediterranean ninety degrees on its axis, positioning its western extent at the top and its eastern shore at the bottom, so that the Strait of Gibraltar (the classical Pillars of Hercules) appears as the neck of a funnel into […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/02/23/medieval-marvels-in-latin-west-and-islamic-world-karnes/

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