Pietro d'Abano, Marco Polo e Giovanni da Montecorvino

• Main Author: BOTTIN, FRANCESCO
• Other Authors: Bottin, Francesco
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: Italian
• Published: Delfino 2008
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Polo; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11577/2272302

Peter of Abano likely met Marco Polo in Venice sometime during the years 1300-1303. Peter asks Marco Polo information about a star of the antarctic region which had a sack-like form in the description of the arab astronomer al-Bumasar. Marco Polo witnesses that in the antarctic pole is visible a sta...