flat earth / round earth
005 flat earth -Homer's view of the earth (900 B.C.)
Rendition of Homer's view of the world (prior to 900 BC). The Homeric conception of the world involved a flat, circular Earth, surrounded by mountains and by Oceanus, the world-ocean of classical antiquity, considered to be an enormous river encircling the world. The Sun emerges from underneath the Earth, traveling along the fixed dome of the sky, and is shown rising from Oceanus.©: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great_in_the_Quran
tags: Homer, flat earth
005b flat earth -the Bible's view
"the One who Builds his upper chambers into the Heavens and has founded his vaulted dome over the Earth." (amos 9:6)©: flipimg.com
tags: , flat earth, bible
005c flat earth -Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch: 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' (the exterior shutters) 1500-1505This image of 'the Garden of Earthly Delights' illustrates the Hebrew Weltanschauung which is reflected in the book of Genesis. The Earth is a disc surrounded by two water masses: the upper waters, which occasionally fall to earth in form of rain when YHVH opens the floodgates of Heaven, and the lower waters, formed by the seas, the lakes and the Ocean. In the depths of the Cosmic Sphere lay the sheol, dwelling of the dead until the Judgement Day.
©: Wikipedia, Prado Madrid
tags: #the Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch
ref. # 005d flat earth -Beatus Liebanensis - Spanish World Map
Beatus of Liebana of Burgo de Osma 'Apocalypse of St. John'.
Biblioteca de la Catedral del Burgo de Osma-Soria."Here the sea is full of fish and sea monsters that stand between the sirens. The surrounding land, with the earthly paradise of Adam and Eve intend to illustrate the evangelization of the world. It is a world map to show the inhabited land, sea does not give less importance ..".
©: via www.vgesa.com publishes a facsimili, more info there
tags: #beatus, world map
005e flat earth -'the question of the shape of the earth'
"In Christendom, the greater part of this long period [Ptolemy to Copernicus] was consumed in disputes respecting the nature of God, and in struggles for ecclesiastical power. The authority of the Fathers, and the prevailing belief that the Scriptures contain the sum of all knowledge, discouraged any investigation of Nature . . . This indifference continued until the close of the fifteenth century. Even then there was no scientific inducement. The inciting motives were altogether of a different kind. They originated in commercial rivalries, and the question of the shape of the earth was finally settled by three sailors, Columbus, Da Gama, and above all, by Ferdinand Magellan."-William DRAPER, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874)
"With the decline of Rome and the advent of the Dark Ages, geography as a science went into hibernation, from which the early Church did little to rouse it . . . Strict Biblical interpretations plus unbending patristic bigotry resulted in the theory of a flat earth with Jerusalem in its center, and the Garden of Eden somewhere up country, from which flowed the four Rivers of Paradise."
-Boise PENROSE, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance (1955)
"A Europe-wide phenomenon of scholarly amnesia . . . afflicted the continent from AD 300 to at least 1300. During those centuries Christian faith and dogma suppressed the useful image of the world that had been so slowly, so painfully, and so scrupulously drawn by ancient geographers."
-Daniel BOORSTIN, The Discoverers (1983)
Text taken from: thomasachord.wordpress.com
the Guardian
©: 'A fantasy map of a flat earth'. Art: AntarWorks
tags: #, flat earth, round earth, Antar Dayal, draper, penrose, boorstin
ref. # 006 round earth -'the Properties of Things'
15th-century depiction of Earth covered with spires, from a French translation of ´De proprietatibus rerum (On the Properties of Things)´ by Bartholomeus Anglicus (Bartholomew of England)©: National Library of France, all images courtesy Abrams)
via: hyperallergic.com
tags: , Bartholomew of England, round earth, the Properties of Things
Interesting to see and read: Alternative Earth Theories
006a round earth -Hildegard von Bingen
Medieval depiction of a spherical earth with different seasons at the same time (from the book 'Liber Divinorum Operum' 12th century (1163-1173))©: PD, courtesy State Library of Lucca
tags: , Hildegard von Bingen, round earth
155 -'Flammarion'
"The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion's L´Atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were a solid hemisphere, to look at the mysterious Empyrean beyond. The caption underneath the engraving (not shown here) translates to "A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet..."©: wikimechanics.org/premise
"I bet you have seen this picture before. If not in black and white, then perhaps you've seen in it in colour. This is a much recycled illustration, reprinted many times, with or without adaptation, in various books, on book and magazine covers, posters and adverts. This illustration is famous on at least two accounts. First, it is famous on account of its uncertain date and origin. For instance, Ernst Zimmer, a German historian of astronomy, thinks that the woodcut goes back to the early 16th centuty, to the school of Albrecht Dürer. Owen Gingerich, the historian of astronomy of Harvard University and the Smithsonian, is convinced that it occurs for the first time in Ernst Kraemers five-volume popular science book Weltall und Menschheit from 1907. However, two scholars, Arthur Beer, an astrophysicist and historian of German science at Cambridge, and Bruno Weber, the curator of rare books at the Zürich central library, have independently traced the illustration back to Camille Flammarion's popular science book L'atmosphére: météorologie populaire from 1888."
© Dr. Pavel Gregoric blogomata.wordpress.com, also for more on the explanation of the 'protruding woodstick' in the image.
And this is also quite intesting to read:"Flammarion, Camille (1842-1925)." Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. 2001. Retrieved January 05, 2016 from: Encyclopedia.com
tags: #flammarion #flat earth
155a -Round earth
Picture from a 1550 edition of 'On the Sphere of the World', the most influential astronomy textbook of 13th-century Europe.©: from Wikipedia
tags: #Sphere of the World #flat earth
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Gregor REISCH, 'Margarita Philosophica' ('pearl of wisdom') 16th century
©: from clarklibrary.wordpress.com
tags: #margarita philosophica #gregor reisch
155b -Round earth
Gregor REISCH, 'Margarita Philosophica' ('pearl of wisdom') 16th century
©: from clarklibrary.wordpress.comtags: #margarita philosophica #gregor reisch
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'Map of the Square and Stationary Earth' by prof. Orlando FERGUSON (Hot Springs, South Dakota)
Four hundred passages in the Bible that condemns the globe theory, or the 'flying earth', and none sustain it., This map is the bible map of the world by Orlando Ferguson, (1893)
©: from Wikipedia
tags: #square earth #Orlando Ferguson
156 (reverse #005) -Flat earth: Map of Square Earth
'Map of the Square and Stationary Earth' by prof. Orlando FERGUSON (Hot Springs, South Dakota)Four hundred passages in the Bible that condemns the globe theory, or the 'flying earth', and none sustain it., This map is the bible map of the world by Orlando Ferguson, (1893)
©: from Wikipedia
tags: #square earth #Orlando Ferguson
