Obscuris Secreta: Revela Nondum Cognita
For nearly two millennia some europeans believed that a vast, wealthy, and peopled continent, terra australis incognita, lay in the southern ocean, and acted as a stabilizing counterweight. When ptolemy of alexandria published his geographia circa 150ad he produced the hypothetical southern continent of terra australis nondum cognita, or the unknown south land. When ptolemy of alexandria published his geographia circa 150ad he produced the hypothetical southern continent of terra australis nondum cognita, or the unknown south land. Terra australis nondum cognita was being reduced in size, and in the approaching decades of the early 17th century, australia would begin to take shape on the world map. On ortelius' map it.
There could scarcely be a clearer statement by. May 4, 2022 · footnote 7 shirley scott has proposed to reinterpret antarctic history as divided into three periods of imperialism: From spain and portugal’s claims to the hypothetical terra. Starting from the assumption that earth is dominant on the terrestrial disk, the theory of isthmuses explains one of the oddities of ptolemy’s maps: The strip of land which unites southern africa.
