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On the last day of March in 1334, an Italian priest named Opicinus de Canistris fell ill. His body slowly became paralyzed, and he temporarily lost his ability to speak. But during this illness, he had a divine vision, and his “interior eyes were opened to discern the images of the earth and the sea.” These “images,” visions of continents and oceans transformed into human

Title : Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination
Author : Karl Whittington
Language : en
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