FLAT EARTH HISTORY
I. ANCIENT COSMOLOGIES
Common Characteristics
a. Flat Earth
b. Cosmic Mountain
c. Flood
A. ASIATIC
- HEBREW
‘The Hebrew Conception of the World’
By Luis Stadelmann (1970)
This book shows that the ancient Israelites adhered to a flat earth cosmos.
History
- BABYLONIAN
‘Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography’
By Wayne Horowitz
(of Hebrew University)
This book corroborates the view of Cosmas Indicopleustes that the Greeks inherited their globular beliefs from the Babylonians. Horowitz says ancient Babylonian cosmologies were originally flat earth, but historically most of them posited a spherical earth. Thus, ancient Babylon was the source of the heresy of globularism.
Horowitz also notes that the accuracy of their astronomical observations is irrelevant to the shape of the earth in which they believed.
https://www.amazon.com/Mesopotamian-Cosmic-Geography-Civilizations/dp/1575062151 -
ARAB ARAB COSMOS
In Sufi tradition a great mountain called Qaf exists in the northern ocean.
HISTORY
FOOTNOTES
'The King of the World' by Rene Guenon
- Persian
Persian Cosmos
History
Footnotes
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HINDUHINDU COSMOS
In an ancient hindu tradition, four Maharajas sit at the four corners of the flat earth. They have a king over them who resides at the centre underneath the earth.
HISTORY
A major medieval Hindu astronomical book known as the Surya Siddhanta is evidence that medieval India adopted and preserved Greek spherical doctrines.
FOOTNOTES
'King of the World' by Rene Guenon
'Surya Siddhanta'
- Jain
Jain Cosmos
History
Footnotes
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CHINA CHINESE COSMOS
Zhou Bi Suan Jing
- the ancient Chinese flat earth classic
https://avserzhen.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/astronomy-and-mathematic-in-ancient-china.pdf HISTORY
- 'Science and Civilisation in China Volume 3:
Mathematics and the Science of the Heavens and the Earth’
By Joseph Needham
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Civilisation-China-Mathematics-Sciences/dp/0521058015 - ‘When the Earth Was Flat:
Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology’
By Dirk Couprie
https://books.google.com/books/about/When_the_Earth_Was_Flat.html?id=QO51DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button B. EUROPEAN
- GREEK
‘Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology’
By Dirk Couprie
https://books.google.com/books/about/Heaven_and_Earth_in_Ancient_Greek_Cosmol.html?id=MUmdgyUA8bgC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button - LATIN
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IRELAND ERIE COSMOS
The four lands with a capitol located at____.
- Rene Guenon
- Scandinavia
Norse Cosmos
C. AFRICAN
- Egyptian
D. OCEANUS
Alaska
Aleutian Cosmos
Nunavut
Inuit Cosmos
- Hawaii
Hawaiian Cosmos
History
Footnotes
- Polynesia
- Maya
Mayan Cosmos
- Inca
Incan Cosmos
History
Footnotes
- Aztec
Nahuan Cosmos
History
Footnotes
E. CHRISTIAN
CHRISTIAN COSMOS
The Book of Enoch,
The Book of the Courses of the Heavenly Luminaries
HISTORY
Roman Emperor Constantine I the Great,
had his children tutored by Lactantius
Russian Old Orthodox Christians (Old Believers)
https://www.wdl.org/en/item/16970/#fbclid=IwAR0OXiNbyhSoF6UkBLNEpdRGNY4LXnL_sG9zfjgiVbepsa41eokJWUhW3GA ‘Commentary on Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews’
By Saint John Chrysostom
'Dawn of Modern Geography'
By Raymond Beazeley
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39018 'Christian Topography'
By Cosmas Indicopleustes
https://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/ct/index.htm - Review of a scholarly technical history of this book and it’s influence in the Christian East over many centuries:
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014.07.23 Blessed Jerome of Bethlem
'Cosmology of Aethicus Ister' translated by Michael Herren
https://www.amazon.com/Cosmography-Aethicus-Ister-Translation-Publications/dp/2503535771 'The Divine Institutes'
By Lactantius
http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/0240-0320,_Lactantius,_Divinarum_Institutionum_%5BOmnes_Libri_Collecti%5D_%5BSchaff%5D,_EN.pdf Flat Earth Declarations by Roman Emperor Justinian
'The Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997'
By Eugenio Piccirillo and Michelle Alliata
http://www.sbf.custodia.org/it/publications/collectio-maior/madaba-map-centenary-1897-1997 F. ETHIOPIA
G. SAMUEL ROWBOTHAM
‘Plane Truth: A History of the Flat Earth Movement’
By Robert Schadewald
http://www.cantab.net/users/michael.behrend/ebooks/PlaneTruth/pages/index.html ‘Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea’
By Christine Garwood
https://books.google.com/books/about/Flat_Earth.html?id=7uRuzP1RydAC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button ‘Flat Earth Clues: End of the World’
By Mark Sargent
- history of the YouTube and meetup flat earth movement from 2014 to 2019
https://www.amazon.com/Flat-Earth-Clues-End-World/dp/1086579003/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1592092414&refinements=p_27%3AMark+Sargent&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Mark+Sargent ------------------------------------------
Note: Both this outline and the bibliography are works in progress and will be repeatedly updated, organized, and edited as time permits.