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MACROBIUS (AMBROSIUS AURELIUS THEODOSIUS)
Footnotes
Macrobius's commentary on Cicero, "the most satisfactory and widely read Latin compendium on Neoplatonism that existed during the Middle Ages," with "lengthy excursuses on Pythagorean number lore, cosmography, world geography and the harmony of the spheres" (DSB).
This copy has a good clean impression of his circular world map - differing from Ptolemy's concept in that the world is divided into a northern inhabited continent separated by an ocean from a southern continent. This particular version of the map is not recorded in Shirley (The Mapping of the World, 13). The second, slightly larger woodcut in the work shows three astronomers surveying with measuring instruments.





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