Court of Wisdom

The Court of Wisdom was a magnificent palace within the Round City of al-Zawira. The finest scholars in the Qamarist Caliphate were gathered there to share their knowlegde. During the rule of caliph Abbas al-Mansour these scholars calculated the size of the world, dorty and a quarter thousand mīl around, merely from observations in the Cradle of the World and the use of the astrolabe. They had measured the height of the North Star, marched north and south until the star rose or sunk one degree, and made a relation with the distance traveled, a journey of fifty-six and two-thirds mīl. Across the Burning Sands, by Daniel Lovat Clark
Category:Al-Zawira