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Pietro d'Abano (d 1316)
Medici ac Philosophi Celeberrimi Conciliator (Italy)
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Taken from: Cathay and the Way Thither: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China
In the country of the Zingi there is seen a star as big as a sack. I know a man who saw it, and he told me that it had a faint light like a piece of cloud, and is always in the south. I was told of this and other matters also by Marco the Venetian, the most extensive traveler and the most diligent inquirer whom I have ever known. He saw this same star under the Antarctic; he described it as having a great tail, and drew a figure of it, thus.
