Cosmas Indicopleustes, Topographia Christiana

INTRODUCTION
- Man and the stars
SECTION I
- The dawn of astronomy: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Biblical Cosmos
SECTION II
- The cosmos becomes a sphere
SECTION III
- The geometry of the cosmos
SECTION IV
- The skies of Islam
SECTION V
- Evangelisation of the cosmos
SECTION VI
- The Renaissance of Astronomy
SECTION VII
- Galileo: the cosmos through the telescope
SECTION VIII
- From Galileo to Newton

Atlas coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica

Cosmas Indicopleustes, Topographia Christiana

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Cosmas Indicopleustes (6th century)
Topographia Christiana, 11th century
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Pl. 82.10, ff. 95v-96r (facsimile)

Cosmas rejected the classical view of the cosmos as a sphere. He saw the Earth and the universe as a tabernacle. Our planet has a rectangular shape with its sides supporting the vault of heaven.