File:EB 1911 Map Fig 6.png
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English: Caption: "Fig. 6.—The World according to Cosmas Indicopleustes (535)." Cosmas gave the surface of the Earth as a flat rectangle holding up the vault of the sky, the whole making the shape of the Israelite Tabernacle [not shown]. The World Ocean does not encircle all land, but only the currently inhabited world (i.e., Afroeurasia). The outer shore comprises "The Earth beyond the Ocean where men dwelt before the Flood" (N), "The Earth beyond the Ocean" (W & S), and the [here unlabeled] Garden of Eden from which flow four rivers including the "Gihon"/"Nilus" and "Phisor". The rivers were considered to run through the World Ocean as a current and then to have reëntered the land in Transoxiana, Persia, and Ethiopia. |
| Date | circa 1911 (archetype written sometime after ad 535) |
| Source | "Map" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., Vol. XVII, p. 637. After Cosmas's Christian Topography. |
| Author | Anonymous (presumably Emery Walker), reconstructing the map of Cosmas Indicopleustes. |
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