The Jewish physician in England shows Robert a map of the then-known world that was not created until a little over 100 years later, by the Muslim scholar Muhammed al-Idrisi. Al-Idrisi worked for King Roger II of Sicily, one of the few Christian-controlled territories where Muslims were tolerated. The map dates to 1154, and was ground-breaking for the time, remaining current centuries later--even Christopher Columbus consulted it before accidentally finding the Americas.The Jewish physician holds the map upside-down, though. Muslim tradition was to place South at the top, and those who learned in Muslim lands would certainly follow that tradition of conceptualizing the world in this way (incidentally, Christian maps placed Jerusalem in the very center, often with East at the top).
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