Story of Geographical Discovery

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In the Middle Ages, much of this knowledge, like all other, was lost, and we shall have to record how knowledge was replaced by imagi nation and theory. The true inheritors of Greek science during that period were the Arabs, and the few additions to real geogra phical knowledge at that time were due to them, except in so far as commercial travellers and pilgrims brought a more intimate knowledge of Asia to the West.