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English: Illustration of the spherical earth in a medieval manuscript. The figure shows two men walking around the spherical earth, one going to the East and the other to the West, and meeting on the opposite side. 14th century copy of a 12th century original
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Gossuin de Metz - L'image du monde, BNF Fr. 574 folio 42
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  1. ↑ O. H. Prior, ed., L'image du monde de maitre Gossuin, (Lausanne & Paris: Librarie Payot & Cie, 1913), pp. 93-4.

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