Wonders and rarities the marvelous book that traveled the world and mapped the cosmos
"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 Ghara'ib al-Maw...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2023]
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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.
