The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
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pancho
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- Friday, March 2 2012, 15:26:30 (UTC) from *** - *** -  Windows XP -   MozillaWebsite: Website title: |
...ashur says.. "You cant dispute a map that is recognized by many professionals. The map is pretty much accurate as well as far as the geographics but he is a very famous man and was respected for his works. I win you lose...end of discussion!" ...."as far as geographics"....really? Here is an excerpt from Manchester's "A World Lit Only by Fire", Little Brown, 1992-93, p. 232... speaking of Ferdinand Magellan and the state of Euro maps up to the 1800s in particular.... "As late as 1755 St Brendan's Isle was believed to be situated five degrees west of the Canary Islands, and Brazil Rock, also imaginative, was not stricken from Britain's admiralty charts until 1873." "These were typical of the phantoms which confused and misled explorers sailing into unknown waters. Given the state of maps then, it is hardly surprising that so many ships failed to return; the wonder is that any of them found anything. Africa was shown as adjacent to India. The Indian Ocean and the Red Sea were small bodies of water. Egypt was placed in Asia; so was Ethiopia. Navigators pouring over charts found such bewildering legends as 'India Ethiope' and 'India Egyptii' and the fourteenth century Catalan Atlas, which may be seen today in Paris's Bibliotheque Nationale, is a farrago of distortions and inventions, including islands of griffins, the realm of Gog and Magog, a land of pygmies placed between India and China, an island called 'Iana' where Malaya should be, and another island, 'Trapabona', where there is nothing but open sea." ....and, we could add, " Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire". Now ashur will reply... "doesn't matter what you say or what books you bring, no one listens to you..." To which I reply that no one has to listen to me, but anyone not infected with your nonsense will listen to William Manchester over John Speed...and Dr Joseph over Fred Aprim....and that I'm not TRYING to get you to listen to me, but rather putting up information for the 2000 plus who read here...to show that your flimsy map-argument holds no water at all and also that YOU are clearly an idiot who, when he reads at all, picks and chooses only what he THINKS makes his claim, but who really just makes an ass of hisself, like the rest of you "assyrians". and NOW you can say "end of discussion". --------------------- |
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