Gossuin_de_Metz_-_L'image_du_monde_-_BNF_Fr._574_fo42_-_miniature.jpg


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English: Illustration of the spherical earth in a medieval manuscript. The figure shows two men walking around the spherical earth, one going to the East and the other to the West, and meeting on the opposite side. [1] 14th century copy of a 12th century original
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Gossuin de Metz - L'image du monde, BNF Fr. 574 folio 42
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  1. O. H. Prior, ed., L'image du monde de maitre Gossuin, (Lausanne & Paris: Librarie Payot & C ie , 1913), pp. 93-4.

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