Obscuris Secreta: Revela Nondum Cognita
From spain and portugal’s claims to the hypothetical terra. 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. There could scarcely be a clearer statement by. 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. 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. May 4, 2022 · footnote 7 shirley scott has proposed to reinterpret antarctic history as divided into three periods of imperialism: 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. The strip of land which unites southern africa. 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:
