Lost book from the 14th century, describing the North Pole as an island
Inventio Fortunata (also Inventio Fortunate, Inventio Fortunat or Inventio Fortunatae), "Fortunate, or fortune-making, discovery", is a lost book, probably dating from the 14th century, containing a description of the North Pole as a magnetic island (the Rupes Nigra) surrounded by a giant whirlpool and four continents. No direct extracts from the document have been discovered, but its influence on the Western idea of the geography of the Arctic region persisted for several centuries.
InventioFortunata (also Inventio Fortunate, Inventio Fortunat or Inventio Fortunatae), "Fortunate, or fortune-making, discovery", is a lost book, probably...
compasses point to this location. The idea came from a lost work titled InventioFortunata, and the island featured on maps from the sixteenth and seventeenth...
the north pole, Ruysch drew islands, based on reports in the book InventioFortunata of the English friar Nicholas of Lynne. The island above Norway shows...
result navigators were better able to chart their positions. The InventioFortunata, a lost book, describes in a summary written by Jacobus Cnoyen but...
Tarikh-i Jahangushay, but he claimed that he burned it after reading it. InventioFortunata. A 14th-century description of the geography of the North Pole. Itinerarium...
merchant, author of a letter referring to existence of lost book InventioFortunata John Day (printer) (c. 1522–1584), English Protestant printer, also...
the north pole, Ruysch drew islands, based on reports in the book InventioFortunata of the English friar Nicholas of Lynne. The island above Norway shows...
Nicholas as the Franciscan (Minorite) friar who wrote a text called the InventioFortunata, allegedly describing a voyage to Greenland and beyond, was first...
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