Cosmas Indicopleustes
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Cosmas Indicopleustes was a 6th-century merchant and later hermit from Alexandria in Egypt. However, despite his moniker, "Cosmas the Monk", Cosmas himself says nothing that would indicate his involve
A theoretical model of the universe.
Early world maps
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The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appea
Cosmas Indicopleustes
…to the Kingdom of Aksum, and India during the reign of emperor Justinian. His work Christian Topography contained some of the earliest and most famous world maps. Cosmas was a pupil of the East Syriac Patriarch Aba I and was himself a follower of the Church of the East. In fact, Cosmas is the one who provided…
A 1628 reconstruction of Posidonius' ideas about the positions of continents (many details could not have been known by Posidonius)
Modern re-drawing of the Tabula Peutingeriana, from Iberia in the west, to India in the east.
Original Tabula Rogeriana (1154) with south up.