Название: Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
Автор: Travis Zadeh
Издательство: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674258457
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 462
Размер: 39,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

During the thirteenth century, the Persian naturalist and judge Zakariyyāʾ Qazwīnī authored what became one of the most influential works of natural history in the world: Wonders and Rarities . Exploring the dazzling movements of the stars above, the strange minutiae of the minerals beneath the earth, and everything in between, Qazwīnī offered a captivating account of the cosmos.