May 13
@JordanNuttall
"In the 1630s, Olearius [mathematician and librarian to the Duke of Holstein] was dispatched as part of a grand embassy to the East, tasked with documenting the lands of #Muscovy, #Tartary, and #Persia...The edition we look upon tonight was printed in Amsterdam in 1727, a time when the ink was still fresh on a #history that hadn't yet been scrubbed of its complexity."
https://open.substack.com/pub/jordannuttall/p/what-did-the-old-world-look-like?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=b8n6e
