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Delnero, Paul, "A Land with No Borders: A New Interpretation of the Babylonian “Map of the World”", Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, vol. 4, no. 1-2, pp. 19-37, 2017 Finkel, Irving , "The Babylonian Map of the World, or the Mappa Mundi", in Babylon: Myth and Reality, ed. Irving Finkel and Michael Seymour.
Display a year or month calendar Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Year year the ordinal year number of the calendar Default current Number suggested Month month whether to display a single month instead of a whole year, and which one Default empty Example current, next, last, 1, January String suggested Show year show_year whether to display the year ...
The Paris copy is a single combined sheet that came into the possession of the Bibliothèque Nationale from the estate of Julius Klaproth (1783–1835). [9] The map is uncoloured, partially borderless and in poor condition due to repeated exhibitions during the nineteenth century. [9]
The term "portolan chart" was coined in the 1890s because at the time it was assumed that these maps were related to portolani, medieval or early modern books of sailing directions. [2] Other names that have been proposed include rhumb line charts, compass charts or loxodromic charts [ 3 ] whereas modern French scholars prefer to call them ...
Ptolemy's world map, reconstituted from Ptolemy's Geography (circa 150) in the 15th century, indicating "Sinae" at the extreme right, beyond the island of "Taprobane" (Ceylon or Sri Lanka, oversized) and the "Aurea Chersonesus" (Southeast Asian peninsula).
The Topkapı Palace where the map was discovered, viewed from the Bosporus. Much of Piri Reis's biography is known only from his cartographic works, including his two world maps and the Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Maritime Matters) [6] completed in 1521. [7]
The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar, the Eastman plan or the Yearal) [1] was a proposed reform of the Gregorian calendar designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, first presented in 1902. [2] The International Fixed Calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28 days each.
The quarters are equal: each has exactly 91 days, 13 weeks, or 3 months. The three months in each quarter have 31, 30, and 30 days respectively. Each quarter begins with the 31-day months of January, April, July, or October. The World Calendar also has the following two additional days to maintain the same new year days as the Gregorian calendar.