Tidal Diagram (Rota)

late 12th century

15.5 cm 26.7 cm

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This wheel-shaped diagram illustrates the monthly movement of the tides, and shows the correspondences between the tides and the age of the Moon as set out in the English scholar Bede's (d. 735 CE) De natura rerum (On the nature of things, XXXIX). The T-O map of the inhabited...

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Gruel and Englemann Collection, Paris [1]; acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] no. 131, bookplate on inside upper board
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