Pietro D'Abano, Marco Polo e Giovanni da Montecorvino

• Main Author: Bottin, Francesco
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Italian
• Published: Sapienza Università Editrice 2008
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Polo; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa01/medicina_nei_secoli/article/view/404

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...