Ancient cartographical feature known today as the Gulf of Thailand and surrounding areas
The 11th Asian regional map from Ptolemy's Geography (Harleian MS 7182)
The Magnus Sinus or Sinus Magnus (Latin; Greek: ὀ Μέγας Κόλπος, o Mégas Kólpos),[1][2] also anglicized as the Great Gulf, was the form of the Gulf of Thailand and South China Sea known to Greek, Roman, Arab, Persian, and Renaissance cartographers before the Age of Discovery. It was then briefly conflated with the Pacific Ocean before disappearing from maps.
The MagnusSinus or SinusMagnus (Latin; Greek: ὀ Μέγας Κόλπος, o Mégas Kólpos), also anglicized as the Great Gulf, was the form of the Gulf of Thailand...
writing (e.g., SinusMagnus, Sinus Flanaticus, etc.) Sine, a trigonometric math function (Latin sinus) Sinus Medii, a small lunar mare Sinus Successus, a...
Cattigara is the name of a major port city located on the MagnusSinus described by various antiquity sources. Modern scholars have linked Cattigara to...
AD) as lying east of the Golden Chersonese (Malay Peninsula) along the MagnusSinus (i.e. Gulf of Thailand and South China Sea), where a Greek sailor had...
Vịnh Thái Lan. It is generally identified with the Great Gulf (Latin: MagnusSinus) known to Greek, Roman, Arab, Persian, and Renaissance cartographers...
of the suggested locations for the port city of "Cattigara" along the MagnusSinus (i.e. Gulf of Thailand and South China Sea) in Ptolemy's Geography. After...
(Sericae Pars) lies to the north of the Sinae, who lie on the Great Gulf (MagnusSinus) at the eastern end of a land-locked Indian Ocean (Indicum Pelagus)....
Geography as the capital city of the country on the eastern shores of the MagnusSinus (Gulf of Thailand). The location of Suvarṇabhūmi has been the subject...
colonization.[citation needed] China Sea with the Moluccas. One side shows the MagnusSinus (the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea) and the other shows the...
barosinusitis, sinus squeeze or sinus barotrauma is a painful inflammation and sometimes bleeding of the membrane of the paranasal sinus cavities, normally...
by Ptolemy in his Geography where he labelled the land bordering the MagnusSinus (i.e., the Gulf of Thailand and South China Sea) as the Sinae. Their...
identified the Pacific Ocean with Ptolemy's SinusMagnus, which he labelled on his 1523 globe, SINUSMAGNUS EOV[um] MARE DE SUR (the Great Gulf, Eastern...
Globe, no.87, 2020, pp.1-22. “A Portuguese discovery of Australia? The MagnusSinus, Java and Locach on the map from Martellus to Mercator, 1491-1569”, presented...
of the suggested locations for the port city of "Cattigara" along the MagnusSinus (i.e. Gulf of Thailand and South China Sea) in Ptolemy's Geography. A...
northeast of the Golden Peninsula (i.e. the Malay Peninsula) into the MagnusSinus (i.e. Gulf of Thailand and South China Sea). In 166 CE, the official...
that, thereafter, it flows straight towards the isle of Chryse and the SinusMagnus beyond which Cattigara, a station of the Sinae, the extreme limit of...
Wheatley, Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co., 1966. „Der MagnusSinus und Cattigara nach Ptolemaeus“ (The SinusMagnus and Cattigara according to Ptolemy), International...
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (US: /ˌvɜːrnər vɒn ˈbraʊn/ VUR-nər von BROWN, German: [ˌvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊ̯n]; 23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977)...
aware of the Red Sea (Sinus Arabicus) and the protrusion of the Horn of Africa, describing the gulf south of the Horn of Africa as Sinus Barbaricus. With the...
defects. This type of defect is usually associated with Down syndrome. A sinus venosus ASD is a type of atrial septum defect in which the defect involves...
compression and decompression events. Barotrauma generally manifests as sinus or middle ear effects, lung overpressure injuries and injuries resulting...
Global Information