Gautier de Metz

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

About 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 illustrated a spherical Earth.

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

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