... . The Islamic people adopted Indian mathematic numerals, Egyptian geometry, and founded Algebra on their own. They used these subjects to make sense of the world and space alike. The Islamic people used nature poetically to express the world around them, because nature displayed the wisdom of God and all creates were governed by divine law. This is reflected in the cartography of ... 's idea that the earth was not the center of the universe removed was an influencing factor in Ortelius's depiction, because he shows humans as being complements to the world of nature. This map aided in the ...

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