Al-Idrisi's Tabula Rogeriana
1154 · Work
Commissioned by the Norman king Roger II of Sicily from the Moroccan geographer al-Idrisi, the most accurate world map of the Middle Ages — drawn south-up, built from fifteen years of interviewing travellers in Palermo's uniquely mixed Arab-Norman court, and engraved on a disc of solid silver. Copies remained the best picture of the world for three centuries.
On these timelines: The Islamic Golden Age, Master, Arts and Thoughts, Science & Technology, Italy (post-476 CE)
More from The Islamic Golden Age
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- The Graeco-Arabic translation movement (750)
- al-Khwarizmi's al-Jabr (820)
- Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics (1021)
- Papermaking spreads west (751)
Around 1154
- Anarchy in England (1135)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Sack of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade (1204)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)
- Kamakura shogunate (1185)
- Reign of Frederick I Barbarossa (1155)