“…For a long period, then, during the 14th and into the 15th and 16th centuries, the Geography was circulating alongside, and as part of, a range of earlier geographical texts (and images) of medieval and late-Antique provenance, an example of which is Johann Reger’s printed edition of the Geographia of 1486. As Hoogvliet (2002: 14) explains, this particular edition included works written during the Middle Ages, namely Jean Germain’s La mappamonde spirituelle (of c.1450), Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum Naturale (of the 13th century), and Isidore’s Etymologiae and De natura rerum (of the 6th–7th centuries), thus demonstrating that ‘early Renaissance scholars were not seeking to declare inherited knowledge as useless but were trying to integrate the new with the old’ (Hoogvliet, 2002: 14).…”