🔴 All roads lead to (New) Rome: Byzantine astronomy and geography in a rapidly changing world

“This comprehensive review of Byzantine geographic achievements – supported by a review of astronomical developments pertaining to position determination on Earth – aims to demonstrate why and how, when Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453 and the Ottoman Empire commenced, Byzantine astronomers had become the central axis in an extensive network of Christians, Muslims and Jews.”

Richard, D.G. (2024) All roads lead to (New) Rome: Byzantine astronomy and geography in a rapidly changing world. https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16285v1.

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