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Near the edges of the earth is a region inhabited by fantastical creatures, monsters, and quasi-human beings. [6] Once one reaches the ends of the earth they find it to be surrounded by and delimited by an ocean (), [7] [8] as is seen in the Babylonian Map of the World, although there is one main difference between the Babylonian and early Greek view: Oceanus is a river and so has an outer ...
Slide Mountain Ocean, the Mesozoic ocean between the ancient Intermontane Islands (that is, Wrangellia) and North America; South Anuyi Ocean, Mesozoic ocean related to the formation of the Arctic Ocean; Tethys Ocean, the ocean between the ancient continents of Gondwana and Laurasia; Thalassa Ocean, the eastern part of the early Mesozoic ...
Animation of the break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea and the subsequent drift of its constituents, from the Early Triassic to recent (250 Ma to 0).. This is a list of paleocontinents, significant landmasses that have been proposed to exist in the geological past.
Wegener used the name "Pangaea" once in the 1920 edition of his book, referring to the ancient supercontinent as "the Pangaea of the Carboniferous". [12] He used the Germanized form Pangäa , but the name entered German and English scientific literature (in 1922 [ 13 ] and 1926, respectively) in the Latinized form Pangaea , especially during a ...
The Latinate form Gæa or Gaea (English: / ˈ dʒ iː. ə /) of the Greek poetic name Gaia (Γαῖα; Ancient Greek: or ) is rare, though the alternative spelling Gaia has become common due to the Gaia hypothesis, in which case its pronunciation is / ˈ ɡ aɪ. ə / rather than the more classical English / ˈ ɡ eɪ. ə /. [29]
Name for inhabitants of Albania during the Middle Ages HD 82886 (Illyrian) 1.3 705 1.65 radial vel. 2011 407.7 2.53 4953 2019 NameExoWorlds Albania Tassili: Tassili n'Ajjer UNESCO World Heritage Site HD 28678 (Hoggar) 1.7 387.1 1.24 radial vel. 2011 622.7 1.74 5076 2019 NameExoWorlds Algeria Madriu: Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley UNESCO World ...
The seven heavens and the sublunar spheres, from an engraving of Albertus Magnus' Philosophia naturalis.. Plato and Aristotle helped to formulate the original theory of a sublunary sphere in antiquity, [4] [missing long citation] the idea usually going hand in hand with geocentrism and the concept of a spherical Earth.
Edson, Evelyn (1993). "The Oldest World Maps: Classical Sources of Three Eighth Century Mappaemundi". Ancient World. 24 (2): 169– 184. Fox, Michael; Reimer, Stephen R (2008). Mappae Mundi: Representing the World and Its Inhabitants In Texts, Maps, and Images In Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edmonton: Department of English and Film Studies ...