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Slide: Ebstorf World Map: Rome and its Surrounding
Slide: Ebstorf World Map: Places in the Eastern Mediterranean
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Slide: Ebstorf World Map: Africa at the Edge of the World
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Slide: Ptolemaic World Map
Slide: Ebstorf World Map
Slide: Behaim Globe 1492
Slide: The Round Umbra

Slide: Gilbert's Terrella
Slide: Barlow’s Sphere
Slide: Declination Compass
Slide: Inclination Compass
Slide: Einstein's Letter to Schrödinger
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Branching Point: Maps and Models of the World
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Slide: Ebstorf World Map
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Slide: Ebstorf World Map: Geographical Distribution of the Seas
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Slide: Ebstorf World Map: Countries of Europe
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Slide: Ebstorf World Map: Countries of North Africa
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Slide: Ebstorf World Map: Important cities
Slide: Ebstorf World Map: Cities in Germany
Slide: Ebstorf World Map: Biblical Places
Slide: Ebstorf World Map: Rome and its Surrounding
Slide: Ebstorf World Map: Places in the Eastern Mediterranean
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The Round Umbra

Washington Irving: Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, New York 1892

Already Aristotle argues that a lunar eclipse occurs when the shadow of the Earth is cast on the moon. Yet the naive conception that a dark force threatens to devour the moon is widespread. Columbus frightens hostile natives by predicting a lunar eclipse.

Washington Irving, Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

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