Wonders and rarities : the marvelous book that traveled the world and mapped the cosmos /

• Main Author: Zadeh, Travis E. (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023.
• Subjects: Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, > 1203-1283.; Κοσμογραφία > Ιστορία.; Αραβία > Ιστορική γεωγραφία. >

"During the thirteenth century, the great scholar, geographer, physician, and astronomer Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203-1283) authored what became perhaps the single most influential work of natural history in the Islamic world: a compendium of curiosities entitled 'Aja'ib al-Makhluqat wa...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Wonder's End
• I. A World within a Book: Stranger Lands
• Measures of Authority
• Astral Power
• II. Wonders to Behold: Cosmic Order
• Terrestrial Designs
• Alchemical Bodies
• III. Distant Shores: Long Divided
• Across the Globe
• On the Edge
• Coda: A Hidden Map.