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A RECENT issue (Feb. 27) of the Illustrated London News contained a reproduction of an old map believed to have been used, and possibly drawn, by Columbus. At the side of the world map is a map showing the celestial ‘spheres’ according to the Ptolemaic system. It is of special interest because it shows the positions* of the heavenly bodies approximately as follows : Sun, Aries 0 ; Moon, Libra 0 ; Mercury, Aries 22 ; Venus, Aquarius 17 ; Mars, Cancer 2 ; Jupiter, Virgo 7 ; Saturn, Scorpio 22.
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MACNAUGHTON, D. Planetary Positions on Medieval Maps. Nature 129, 725–726 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129725c0
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