The Flat Earth Society Home Help Login Register Cosmographical Research Sources The Flat Earth Society Flat Earth Discussion Boards Flat Earth Believers Cosmographical Research Sources « previous next » Print Pages: [1] Go Down Cosmographical Research Sources 1 Replies 37745 Views ? LordByron 116 +0/-0 Cosmographical Research Sources « on: August 17, 2006, 04:17:15 PM » -------------------------------------------------------------------------The 'Book of Enoch' The 'Book of Enoch' is an incorrigible flat Earth book. The book has been preserved from ancient times primarily in Ethiopia, and comprises one of the eighty-one books of the Ethiopian Bible. The Book was accepted by the Christian Orthodox Church as the genuine book of the antediluvian Enoch, the seventh from Adam and great grandfather of Noah. The prophecy of Saint Enoch quoted by the Apostle Jude in his New Testament Epistle is indeed contained in the book. Mahibere Kidusan, the Ethiopian Church's educational branch in Addis Ababa, publishes Ethiopian bibles in Amharic which contain this book, and it is published in english in multiple editions.) Another book written by Enoch has been preserved in Slavonic. www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------'Christian Topography' by Cosmas Indicopleustes Links to three different on-line editions of 'The Christian Topography' by Cosmas Indicopleustes which all use the English translation of William McCrindle which was published by the Hakluyt Society in AD 1897. The third link is also illustrated and only contains Chapter Four which summarizes Cosmas's worldview: www.tertullian.org/fathers/cosmas_01_book1.htm www.sacred-texts.com/earth/ct/index.htm http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/awiesner/cosmas.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 'Cosmography' of Aethicus of Istria This book was written in the fourth century AD in Greek by a Scythian (Ukrainian / Russian) pilgrim traveller named Aethicus according to the ninth century German Archbishop Rabbannus Maurus, also a flat Earth advocate. A seventh century Latin translation of the original Greek is contained in Migne's Patrologiae Latina and was also reprinted in the 1990's by a German publisher in the original Latin with German footnotes by the editor. According to Raymond Beazeley's erudite and definitively well researched 'Dawn of Modern Geography', Aethicus's cosmography is "wild" in comparison to Cosmas Indicopleustes. For example, he asserts that Alexandre the Great not only conquered all of China and Russia (which actually has confirmation in ancient histories of Alexandre in spite of the opinions of some modern "historians"), but CONDUCTED SUBMARINE TRAVELS IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN using Siberia as a base, among other things.Beazeley briefly describes enough major aspects of Aethicus's cosmography to confirm that he and Cosmas Indicopleustes adhere to the same basic cosmography. Although, Beazeley describes Aethicus as a "minor Geographer" and Cosmas Indicopleustes as a "major Geographer," The facts that Aethicus lived, travelled, and wrote during the age of Constantine the Great which preceeds Cosmas who lived during the time of Emperor Justinian AND Aethicus's cosmography is a great deal more sensational than even Cosmas Indicopleustes's containing facts which Cosmas apparently did not allege in writing leaves one with the conclusion that THE MOST OUTSPOKEN CHRISTIAN FLAT EARTH COSMOGRAPHER IS A DISTINCTION WHICH BELONGS TO AETHICUS ISTRIUS. -------------------------------------------------------------------------'Earth Not a Globe'by Parallax (Samuel Birley Rowbotham) This book was first published in a condensed form consisting only of the core proofs in 1865. An expanded edition was first published in 1873 which is mostly what the 1881 text above consists of. A bound reprint of the book is available from Kessinger Publishing.www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/www.kessingerpub.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bibliographieswww.loc.gov/rr/scitech/SciRefGuides/flatearth.html---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ancient Geographers, Cartographers, and Travellers Logbooks The Hakluyt Society based in London has been publishing English translations of important geographical works from ancient times to the present since 1846:www.hakluyt.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Histories of GeographyPerhaps the most informative work in English on European geography in the Middle Ages is 'The Dawn of Modern Geography' in three volumes by Professor Raymond Beazeley (published AD 1897 to AD 1904). Volume one covers AD 300 to AD 900 and contains ex...