Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth) · London and Edinburgh, Gall and Inglis · leaf 289
en in different latitudes, quoteshim as saying that the equatoral regions are inhabited,and Avicenna that the temperature there is equablebecause days and nights are always equal. The cityArym which is exactly on the equator has a perfectclimate, and as it has two summers and two wintersthere are… … Habitable uiorthEarth f^ole IlluminaitdMoon Fig. The half-moon shape of the habitable earth. (Ristoro). There is nothing but sea south of the equator, and the habitable earth lies wholly inone half of the northern hemisphere, the other half being sea. The habitable earth,therefore, is the same…
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy, Ancient · Astronomy, Medieval · Early maps
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