(Composite of) A map of the Mediterranean Sea with the adjacent regions and seas in Europe, Asia and Africa. By William Faden, Geographer to the King. London, printed for Wm. Faden, Charing Cross, March 1st, 1785.
Composite view of Earth at night from the Suomi NPP satellite in polar orbit 512 miles above the surface, from April 18, over nine days and for 13 days ending October 23, 2012. בהוד
One of the most influential medical treatises handed down to Muslims was De Materia Medica, by a first-century b.c. Greek physician in Cilicia (southern Anatolia). The left page concerns making medicine from honey and water, prescribed to cure weakness and loss of appetite. A doctor holds a gold cup while stirring the boiling honey and water in a cauldron as he prepares to scoop it up for the seated patient. The architectural setting suggests that the drugs are being produced in a pharmacy like those attached to hospitals in the Seljuq lands. In the illustration on the right, a doctor and his assistant or patient stand on either side of a sieve through which grapes are pressed and then combined with brine and an onion-like herb to produce a medicine to cure digestive disorders.
Acaeció que, yendo el ciego un día por un lugar donde había muchas acequias y lugares hondo, yo le decía: —Tío, por aquí hay muchos hoyos y pasos malos. A lo cual él respondió: —Lázaro, los mozos del vino y del azote decís verdad. Mas adelante, saltando de unas piedras a otras para pasar, yo le puse en la peor, diciendo: —¡Salta todo lo que puedas, que es muy ancho! Él, confiado, saltó y cayó en una acequia. Preguntóme cómo había caído allí; yo disimulé la risa y respondí que no sabía. Entonces, mojado y maltrecho, salió jurando y diciendo que yo le había engañado.
A radar image of Mercury's north polar region acquired by the Arecibo Observatory. Yellow areas denote regions of high radar reflectivity. Since their discovery in 1992, these polar deposits have been hypothesized to consist of water ice trapped in permanently shadowed areas near Mercury’s north and south pole, but other explanations for the polar deposits have also been suggested. Polar stereographic projection. From J. K. Harmon et al., Icarus, 211, 37–50 (2011).