Retired management consultant for high technology startups and new ventures. Focused on science, technology and the future.
I love maps, history and geography. Al Idrisi in putting the south at the top of the map was following a convention dating back to the Roman Empire. Roman maps placed Rome and Italy at the bottom, facing Mare Nostrum, Our Sea that we call the Mediterranean.
Hi, I'm not familiar with Roman cartography, but I was under the impression that Al-Idrisi followed a geographic tradition from the 10th century called the Balkhi School of Geography. It's an Islamic Persian tradition that focused on the Islamic…
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