-
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...
- 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...
- or
Iranian cosmology refers to the
origins (cosmogony) and
structure (
cosmography) of the
cosmos in Zoroastrianism.
Zoroastrian literature describing cosmographical...
-
Early Gr****
cosmology refers to
beliefs about the
structure (
cosmography) and
origins (cosmogony) of the
cosmos (Gr**** kosmos)
primarily from the 8th...
-
Cosmographiae Introductio ("Introduction to
Cosmography"; Saint-Dié, 1507) is a book that was
published in 1507 to
accompany Martin Waldseemüller's printed...
-
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...
-
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...
-
source of
inspiration and
knowledge for humans,
having been
crucial to
cosmography, mythology, religion, art, time keeping,
natural science, and spaceflight...
- Kuyūthā (Arabic: كيوثاء) is the
cosmic bull in
medieval Islamic cosmography. It is said to
carry on its back the
angel who
shoulders the
earth and the...
