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centered on
Mount Meru
surrounded by rivers,
continents and seas.
These cosmographies posit a
universe being repeatedly created and destro**** over time cycles...
- The
Ravenna Cosmography (Latin:
Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, lit. "The
Cosmography of the
Unknown Ravennese") is a list of place-names
covering the...
-
should be
cautioned that Qazwini's
cosmography is
known to
exist in a
variety of
different m****cripts. Both
cosmographies provide the
story as
words spoken...
- the 2nd
millennium BC and may be
elaborations of
earlier and
simpler cosmographies. One text (KAR 307)
describes the
cosmos in the
following manner, with...
-
Norse cosmology is the
account of the
universe and its laws by the
ancient North Germanic peoples. The
topic encomp****es
concepts from
Norse mythology...
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horizon and then
parting into
multiple individual streams downwards.
Cosmography is
related to cosmogony, the
original formation of the cosmos, insofar...
- or
Iranian cosmology refers to the
origins (cosmogony) and
structure (
cosmography) of the
cosmos in Zoroastrianism.
Zoroastrian literature describing cosmographical...
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source of
inspiration and
knowledge for humans,
having been
crucial to
cosmography, mythology, religion, art, time keeping,
natural science, and spaceflight...
- and the
Marvels of
Creation is an
important work of
paradoxography and
cosmography by ****iya al-Qazwini, who was born in
Qazwin in 1203
shortly before...
-
Cosmographiae Introductio ("Introduction to
Cosmography"; Saint-Dié, 1507) is a book that was
published in 1507 to
accompany Martin Waldseemüller's printed...
