The dawn of modern geographyA history of exploration and geographical science .. . swering to the anonymousgeographers written descriptions. Was it, then, round,square, oval, or of what other shape ? Was it planned froma centre at Jerusalem, Constantinople, or Eavenna itself?Or was it, after all, only the work of the Castorius whomthe Ravennese so constantly quotes, and who was probablythe compiler of a pictorial itinerary of the classical pattern ?It does not seem worth while to enter upon a long discussionof a design which may never have existed at all, and weshall content ourselves with ind
The dawn of modern geographyA history of exploration and geographical science .. . swering to the anonymousgeographers written descriptions. Was it, then, round,square, oval, or of what other shape ? Was it planned froma centre at Jerusalem, Constantinople, or Eavenna itself?Or was it, after all, only the work of the Castorius whomthe Ravennese so constantly quotes, and who was probablythe compiler of a pictorial itinerary of the classical pattern ?It does not seem worth while to enter upon a long discussionof a design which may never have existed at all, and weshall content ourselves with indicating a preference forthe oval and Eavenna-centred reconstruction of Avezac.^ iii. 6. I salem in the centre; Marinelli 2 ? Pc-riegetes. | ( Erdkunde, 71-74) has argued ^ Which is here reproduced witli I very skilfully for a middle point some modifications. (See Rav. i. 18.)Kiepert has given, in Pinder andPartheys edition of the Ravennese,a circular restoration, witli Jeru- at Constantinople; while Lelewelbelieves (Geog. i. 6, 86) that themap of the Ravennese was VI.] SCATTERED ALLUSIOXS TO LOST MAPS. 391 Ijastly, we may notice an attempt, apparent from tlie ma})-sketches of this time, to reconcile the contradictory languageof Scripture on the circuit of the earth and the four cornersof the same, by the device of a T within an 0 ; which alsoindicated in a convenient manner the division of is to be seen in the Madrid sketch-map, and in theStrassburg example within our period, as well as on innu-merable plans of later date ; for, as Dati said— Un T dentro u iin O mostra il disegnoCome in tre parte fu diviso il mondo. * It may seem that an exaggerated attention has beengiven, in this review of geographical science within the earlymediaeval world, to the Europe of the first six centuries afterthe trimnph of Christianity ; but it is of no little consequenceto us whether the theories in question were right or wrong,sensible or senseless, profound or
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