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2 unusual facts about Ernst Georg Ravenstein


Gondophares

In his study of Behaim's globe, E. G. Ravenstein noted: “Egtisilla, or Eyrisculla or Egrisilla: the letters “r” and “t” in the script on the globe look similar, is referred to in John of Hildesheim’s version of the ‘Three Kings’ as an island where St. Thomas lies buried”.

Ravenstein

Ernst Georg Ravenstein (a.k.a. Ernest George Ravenstein) an Anglo-German geographer and athletics promoter



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