Al-Idrisi's Tabula Rogeriana completed

1159

The Moroccan geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi presented his finished world atlas to King William I of Sicily - seventy meticulously drawn maps and a comprehensive geographical text describing the known world from the frozen seas of Scandinavia to the gold-rich kingdoms south of the Sahara, from Korea to Britain. The Tabula Rogeriana remained the most accurate and detailed depiction of the world for the next three centuries.