Explanation Of The Plates : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 389-392. Explanation of the plates EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. Plate I. The picture on the left represents the City of Adul that on the right an Ethiopian travelling from Adul to Axm. The lower picture on the left is the tablet with the Greek...
Book 11 : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 358-373. Book 11 BOOK XI. "A description of Indian Animals, and of the Island of Taprobane." "HIS animal1 is called the rhinoceros from having horns upon his snout. When he is walking his horns are mobile, but when he sees anything to move his...
Preface To The Online Edition : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography. Preface to the online edition. Cosmas Indicopleustes ('India-voyager') of Alexandria was a Greek sailor in the early 6th century who travelled to Ethiopia, India and Sri Lanka. He then became a monk, probably of Nestorian tendencies, and around 550 AD...
Book 8 : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 304-320. Book 8 BOOK VIII. "On the Song of Hezekiah and the going back of the Sun."[300] S I know well, my dear Peter, how hard it is to please the race of man, I hesitated long to comply with your request, for there be some men who cast...
Book 4 : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 129-137. Book 4 BOOK IV. "A summary recapitulation and description of the figures of the world; also the refutation of the sphere." "T is written: In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth".1 We therefore first depict along with...
Book 6 : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 244-262. Book 6 BOOK VI. SUPERADDED. "Regarding the Size of the Sun."[204] FTER my work had been finished, some questioned us about the figure of the world, saying: "How can the sun possibly be hidden, as you hold, by the northern parts...
Prologues, Book 1 : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 1-22. Prologues, Book 1 THE CHRISTIAN TOPOGRAPHY; OR, THE OPINION OF CHRISTIANS CONCERNING THE WORLD. BY COSMAS, AN EGYPTIAN MONK. [113]1 This book, which embraces the whole world, I have designated "Christianik Topographia". N the name...
Book 2 : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 23-90. Book 2 BOOK II. "The Christian theories regarding the form and position of the whole world, the proofs of which are taken from Divine Scripture." OW long I put off the composition of my work regarding the figure of the world, even...
Book 3 : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 91-128. Book 3 BOOK III. That the divine scripture is firm, sure and trustworthy, both in the Old and the New Testament, and in accordance with itself in the details which it gives, while it also shows the utility of the figures representing...
Book 7 : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 263-303. Book 7 BOOK VII. "Concerning the Duration of the Heavens."1 [274] WILL not refuse, O most studious Athanasius, to comply with your request, that I should compose a discourse on heaven; but, for the sake of clearness, I shall first...
Untitled : Christian Topography, written in the 6th century C.E., is a classic flat earth text. Cosmas believed that the Earth was rectangular and that the sky was shaped like a horizontal half-cylinder resting on a box. It looks a bit like an old pirate chest. Cosmas believed that it the Tabernacle...
Book 9 : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 321-330. Book 9 BOOK IX. "Concerning the course of the heavenly bodies." HE circle of the twelve months is the uppermost, that of the sun is lower, and that of the moon is lower still.1 Divine scripture signifies this by the structure...
Book 5 : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 138-243. Book 5 BOOK V. In which is contained a description of the Tabernacle, and in which the harmony is exhibited of the Prophets and Apostles. [192] F the Tabernacle which was prepared by Moses in the wilderness, it is now time to give...
Introduction : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) Introduction. INTRODUCTION. SOURCES OF THE TEXT. H E "Christian Topography "of Cosmas, surnamed Indicopleustes, or the Indian Navigator, has been preserved in two copies: one a parchment MS. of the tenth century belonging to the Laurentian library...
Book 10 : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 331-357. Book 10 BOOK X. "Passages from the Fathers." "ERTAIN of those [Christians] who delight in wrangling, on reading this book and finding it no easy matter to face such a weight of testimony as we have adduced in this treatise...
Book 12 : Cosmas Indicopleustes, Christian Topography (1897) pp. 374-385. Book 12 NOTICE TO THE READER. ("From the Latin of Montfaucon.") WE wish to apprise the reader that this twelfth book of Cosmas Indicopleustes which is contained in the Laurentian Codex, but in a mutilated state at the end, is not...
