Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness

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Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness

• John Donne (1572-1631)

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Cosmographers -- maps

• Dying moment
• Physicians cosmographers
• (1) body and map
• (2) mission and the world
• (3) cognitive map

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Magellan
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Per fretum febris

• Per fretum febris through the straits of fever,
  with a pun on straits
• Dying of fever
• A voyage
• A mission to the end of the world

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Note

• In one of his sermons Donne writes "In a flat
  Map there goes no more to make West East, though
  they be distant in an extremity but to paste that
  flat map upon a round body, and then West and
  East are all one ... conforme thee to him
  Christ and thy West is East ... the name of
  Christ is Oriens, the East....''

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• Antipodes (from Greek anti- "opposed" and pous
  "foot") means "diametrically opposed",
• and more specifically refers to the opposite side
  of the Earth, the region of the antipodal point,
  and those to those living there.
• In Britain in particular, "The Antipodes" is
  often used to refer to Australia and New Zealand.
  ? the international dateline

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? The medieval/ Latin world

• The Latin word changed its sense form the
  original "under the feet, opposite side" to
  "those with the feet opposite", i. e. a bahuvrihi
  referring to hypothetical people living on the
  opposite side of the Earth.
• Medieval illustrations imagine them in some way
  "inverted", with their feet growing out of their
  heads, pointing upward.

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Augustines argument

• Saint Augustine (354430) argued against people
  inhabiting the antipodes and called them a
  "fable" (City of God, xvi, 9).

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antipodes

• Turing upside down!
• The flat earth or the sphere?
• The exotic landscape
• The myth of the unknown

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Antipodes/world upside down
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Inhabitable?

• The Antipodes Islands (4941 S 17848 E) are an
  inhospitable uninhabited island group to the
  south ofand territorially part ofNew Zealand.
  They lie 650 kilometres to the southeast of
  Stewart Island. ?
• World view in the Christian Topography, Cosmas
  Indicopleutes, 6th century

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A Bibliophile in the Antipodes

• Reading click here. ? islands at the bottom of
  the world.

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Is Pacific See my Home?!

• Spiritual home
• Religious mission
• Ultimate goal in life
• The origin of humans
• Leap and resurrection
• --the term pacific?

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The Pacific Ocean

• (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful
  sea", bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer
  Ferdinand Magellan) is the world's largest body
  of water.
• The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan named
  the ocean. For most of his voyage from the
  Straits of Magellan to the Philippines, Magellan
  indeed found the ocean peaceful.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• The Strait of Magellan at dawn

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The Strait of Magellan
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Peaceful?

• However, the Pacific is not always peaceful. Many
  typhoons and hurricanes batter the islands of the
  Pacific and the lands around the Pacific rim are
  full of volcanoes and often rocked by
  earthquakes.

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Modern Globe
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The Strait of Magellan

• a navigable route immediately south of mainland
  South America
• Arguably the most important natural passage
  between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans
• considered a difficult route to navigate because
  of the inhospitable climate and the narrowness of
  the passage.

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The schematic map

• 1493 T - O Map

• Translation

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Mappae mundi

• Medieval world maps are mental maps.
• They are composed by geographical experience,
  literary knowledge and philosophical speculation.
  
• The three continents of medieval world, Asia,
  Europe, and Africa,

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Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes
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Tabernacle world view in the Christian
Topography, Cosmas Indicopleutes, 6th century
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Illustrations from the Christian Topography
(Montfaucon)
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Redrawing of Cosmas Indicopleustes' world
picture, 6 th century
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Redrawing of Cosmas Indicopleustes' world
picture, 6 th century
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Isidore of Seville  
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Interpretive redrawing of the St. Sever Beatus
world map
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Cosmas Indicopleustes' world picture, ca. 560
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