The Pegasus Secret by Gregg Loomis

Author:Gregg Loomis [Loomis, Gregg]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
ISBN: 9781428511422
Publisher: DP
Published: 2005-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Translator’s Notes

1. 5.029 meters.

2. He describes a typical two-decked thirteenth–fourteenth-century galleon-type vessel used in the Mediterranean.

3. Medieval ships carried their own sources of food for all but the shortest voyages, as the means of preservation of meats and vegetables were uncertain at best. Servants such as Pietro would have shared quarters with both the horses and other animals as may have been aboard for purposes of food.

4. Roman cartographers devised a method roughly similar to the present system of latitude and longitude by the use of kardo maximus, which ran north–south and decumanus maximus, running east–west. Although latitude as we know it today was known by the ancients, it was not until the late eighteenth century that Thomas Fuller, an English watchmaker, devised an accurate measure of longitude.

5. Medieval maps were absurd in their simplicity. In the seventh century, Isadore, Bishop of Seville, designed a world that was like a disk, with Asia, Europe and Africa sharing unequal quadrants with Jerusalem always at the center, based upon Ezekiel 5:5: “This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the midst of the nations and countries that are around about her.” This practice or similar ideas persisted until the Renaissance. Fortunately for Western civilization, the Arabic world both admired and continued to use the Ptolemaic method of cartography, partially described in 4 above. The Templars, no doubt, learned this method while in Palestine as they did the mathematics, engineering and navigation known in the ancient world but lost or suppressed by a Church that did not trust knowledge of a pagan society.

6. The actual word used is castellum, which could include a palace as well as a castle. The translator has chosen the word with the connotation of fortifications.

7. 1127

8. See 5 above.

9. 5.029 meters. The medieval measurement was likely somewhat smaller.

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