It was this notable school, therefore, which prepared the great body of geographical learning which we note appearing in the famous congress of Portuguese and Spanish geographers at Badajoz in 1524 and 1525: at which, in the discussion which took place on the demarcation of the Moluccas and on the size of the world, Aristotle was quoted along with Strabo, Eratosthenes, Macrobius, St. Ambrose, Pliny, Theodosius, Marinus of Tyre, Alfergani, and Pierre d'Ailly, etc.]--S.
Long as this note is, a word must be added to it:--
Santarem here covers a large part of the field of mediæval geography, but his treatment in this place is hardly so clear or exhaustive as one might expect from the author of the _Essai sur Cosmographie_, or the compiler of the leading _Atlas_ of mediæval maps. As to the immediate subject, the phrase _Mediterranean_ [_Sea_] was first used in the sense of a proper name by St. Isidore of Seville, _c._ A.D. 600 (_Origins_ or _Etymologies_, Book xiii); though its adjectival use, like the parallel expressions "Our [sea]," "the Roman [sea]," "the Inner [sea]," was of course much earlier. As late as Solinus (_c._ A.D. 230) this last is clearly the only shade of meaning. As to the commerce of North Africa, we must refer to the Introduction to vol. ii, pp. xxii-xxvi, xlv-lvi, lxiv. As to the mediæval _Mirabilia_, it is strange that Santarem gives no adequate reference to the great sources of these collections: Pliny's _Natural History_, and above all Solinus' _Collectanea_, principally compiled from Pliny, Mela, and Varro, and itself reproduced (wholly or partially) in well-nigh every mediæval work of similar character, translated into the pictorial language of Mappemonde, such as that of _Hereford_, of _Ebstorp_, or of the _Psalter_ (Brit. Mus. _Add. MSS._ 28,681). On these, see _Dawn of Modern Geography_, pp. 243-273, 327-391. Santarem's remarks hardly give a sufficient idea of the systematic domination exercised over much of mediæval thought, not only in geography, natural history and ethnology, but in other departments also by the pseudo-science represented in these _Mirabilia_.]
[Endnote 145: (p. 183). _Paulus Orosius._--[Here we must note the omission of the name of Diodorus Siculus among the authors cited by Azurara, especially as he is, among all the ancient historians, the one who has left us the most important and circumstantial account of the Nile. The first Latin version of Diodorus by Poggio only appeared in 1472, nineteen years after Azurara had finished this chronicle. The works of Orosius were held in high estimation among the learned of the Middle Ages. This writer was born at Braga in Lusitania, agreeably to the opinion of some authors. (See _Fr. Leam de St. Thomas, bened. lusit. I_, ii, p. 308; and Baronius, an. 414.) His work, _Historiarum adversus Paganos_, which begins with the creation of the world and comes down to the year 316 of Jesus Christ, was printed for the first time in 1471, that is, eighteen years after Azurara had finished his Chronicle, but during the Middle Ages copies of this work were so multiplied that even in England the book was to be found in the hands of the Anglo-Saxon people (see Wright, _Essay on the State of Literature and Learning under the Anglo-Saxons_, p. 39), a detail which affords one proof the more of the literary relations between the Spanish peninsula, and the peoples and nations of the North in the first centuries of the Middle Ages.]--S. See _Dawn of Modern Geography_, pp. 353-5.]