Gautier de Metz

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Illustration of the spherical Earth in a copy of L'Image du monde.
Illustration of the spherical Earth in a copy of L'Image du monde.

Gautier de Metz, (also Gauthier, Gossuin, Gossouin, German: Walther von Metz[1]) ) was a French priest and poet.

In ca. 1246, he wrote L'Image du monde (French, the image of the world), a work in poem form about creation, the Earth and the universe, wherein facts are mixed with fantasy. A chapter discussed astrology. It was translated in the Middle Ages into many languages and partly illustrated.

It also illustrated a spherical Earth rather than a flat Earth, thus proving that this concept was well known before Columbus.

  1. ^ Rudolf Simek, Heaven and Earth in the Middle Ages: The Physical World Before Columbus, 1996 [1]
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