Re: AKICIF: in search of a certain image

On Jan 7, 12:27 pm, nos...@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
In article <MPG.23cef49c36693c1c989...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

netcat  <net...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Forwarding a request by a publisher/editor who's looking for an image to
illustrate (or inspire the illustration of) the cover of his latest
anthology (tentatively titled The Monk on the Edge of the World).

Specifically then, he's looking for a drawing or an engraving of a monk
casting a scared look over the edge of the (presumably flat) world.

I could only think of this one:
http://www.alchemywebsite.com/images/amcl71.jpg

but this is not a monk, apparently nor does it fit exactly what he's
looking for.

The iconic "medieval guy peeking beyond the edge of the world to
see how things work" image is the one you linked to above.  I doubt
you will find any that are not derivative of it.

I just want to remind everyone that the idea that people believed the
Earth was flat until the time of Columbus is nonsense. Everyone in
the Middle Ages knew the Earth was round. (Well, everyone who thought
about the question. A serf in Central Europe, several hundred miles
from the ocean may never thought about the matter at all.) The
people who disagreed with Columbus said
the world was a lot bigger than Columbus said it was and the ships
would run out of food and water long before they reached China or
India. They were right and Columbus was wrong. The reason he and his
men did not die of thirst and starvation is that he ran into the
Western Hemisphere, where he was able to get food and water. If there
had been no land between the west coast of Europe and the east coast
of Asia, he could never have made the trip.

In the early 13th Century St. Thomas Aquinas used the fact that the
Earth is round as part of a discussion of the nature of theology in
the very first article of his Summa Theologica. He took it for
granted that all his readers knew it was round. http://www.newadvent.org/summa/100101.htm

For more details see _Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern
Historians_ by Jeffrey Burton Russell (Praeger, 1991). This book
presents the facts that refute the myths about Columbus and the flat
Earth. To quote from the back of the dust jacket:
"The Middle Ages were not 'dark'--the Christian Church and
science were in accord on many substantive questions, including
agreement on the sphericity of the earth. Washington Irving's mostly
fictitious renderings of Columbus and his struggles to be 'accepted'
were pure imagination. The 'Flat Error' was proclaimed by Darwinist
historians who compared the so-called 'flat-earth' mindset of the
1400s with religious people of the 19th and 20th centuries who denied
the truth of Darwin's theory of evolution. Columbus did not 'prove'
that the earth was round to unbelieving ecclesiastical authority--it
was already general knowledge."

----
Marty Helgesen
Mygmailuseridis mnhccatcunyvm

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