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The southern hemisphere is mainly land. So said medieval Europeans, raised on a heavy brew of folklore, biblical revelation and geographical theory. It is how they imagined it. So powerful was the hold of this received wisdom that when geographical discoveries, however insignificant, were made in the southern oceans, they were greeted as evidence that the expected continental landmasses, rich and fertile, might at last have been found
- Author
- G. Allen Mawer
- Publisher
- Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty, Limited
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781925003598
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Social_sciences
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