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Gervasius Of Tilbury (With Some Confusion In His Mind Between Tropic And Equinoxial, Like That Which Pliny Makes In Speaking

Of the Indian Mons Malleus) says that "some are of opinion that the Centre is in the place where the

Lord spoke to the woman of Samaria at the well, for there, at the summer solstice, the noonday sun descends perpendicularly into the water of the well, casting no shadow; a thing which the philosophers say occurs at Syene"! (Otia Imperialia, by Liebrecht, p. 1.)

[4] This circumstance does not, however, show in the Vulgate.

[5] "Veggiamo in prima in general la terra Come risiede e come il mar la serra.

Un T dentro ad un O mostra il disegno Come in tre parti fu diviso il Mondo, E la superiore e il maggior regno Che quasi piglia la meta del tondo.

ASIA chiamata: il gambo ritto e segno Che parte il terzo nome dal secondo AFFRICA dico da EUROPA: il mare Mediterran tra esse in mezzo appare." - La Sfera, di F. Leonardo di Stagio Dati, Lib. iii. st. 11.

[6] De Civ. Dei, xvi. 17, quoted by Peschel, 92.

[7] Opus Majus, Venice ed. pp. 142, seqq.

[8] Peschel, p. 195. This had escaped me.

[9] By the Rev. W. L. Bevan, M.A., and the Rev. H. W. Phillott, M.A. In Asia, they point out, the only name showing any recognition of modern knowledge is Samarcand.

[10] His work, Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis, intended to stimulate a new Crusade, has three capital maps, besides that of the World, one of which, translated, but otherwise in facsimile, is given at p. 18 of this volume.

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