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Author : Cosmas (Indicopleustes)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Geography, Medieval
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020111654
Author : Cosmas (Indicopleustes)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1073758539
Author : Cosmas Indicopleustes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108012959
Volume 98 of the Hakluyt Society publications (1897) describes voyages to South Asia in the mid-sixth century C.E.
Author : E. O. WINSTEDT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033662038
Author : Cosmas (Indicopleustes)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Classical geography
ISBN : UOM:39015011814780
Author : Indicopleustes Cosmas,Eric Otto Winstedt
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1378069463
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Author : Eric Otto Winstedt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436614449
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Cosmas (Indicopleustes.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Geography, Ancient
ISBN : PSU:000020625580
Author : Indicopleustes Cosmas,Eric Otto Winstedt
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 134110415X
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Winstedt Eric Otto
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015858740
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : E. O. Winstedt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1527794946
Excerpt from The Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes For the suggestion of this particular author I hardly know whether I am most indebted to Prof. Heiberg of Copenhagen, from whom the suggestion originally came, or to Monsieur Seymour de Ricci, who passed it on to me, and whose friendship enlivened days spent in collating a text, which even the most ardent admirers of Cosmas - if there are any such - must admit is not exhilarating as a whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : E. O. Winstedt
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1496119673
A review from Nature, Vol. 84: THE “Christian Topography” of Kosmas Indikopleustes is a very peculiar work. As a monument-of literary style it is precious, for it shows us what terrible rubbish, what wandering and discursive twaddle, people were already writing in the sixth century, when the mental degeneration of the Middle Ages (more properly called the "Dark Ages") had hardly yet set in. As a geographical landmark it is also precious, for the author, twaddlemonger as he was, went to various parts of the East beyond the ken of the ordinary man of the time, and his descriptions of the Somali coast, of Coromandel, and of Ceylon, which he apparently visited himself, in the sixth century, are in the highest degree interesting and valuable. Finally, as a work of unintentional humour, it is beyond price. Of course, the humour of it would not be apparent to all, and it is perhaps irreverent (to the sixth century, which is now somewhat venerable) to direct the reader's attention to this feature of this peculiar work. Yet, since the editor himself indulges in a hearty laugh over the poor old “Christian Topographer," perhaps the reviewer may be allowed to do so too. 'At any rate, he sins- in the most authoritative company, and if the editor treats his subject (as Mr. Winstedt does) something after the style of Mark Twain and the Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, the reviewer must not be censured if he frivolously suspects the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press of having produced a humorous book.For, really, Mr. Winstedt's introduction to Kosmas is pitched in rather too humorous a tone. Such a quotation as "they didn't know everything down in Judee" (p. 15) is a fault of taste, and one can imagine the bewilderment of a French or German scholar at such an unintelligible sentence as “when he can momentarily get free from the obsession of his King Charles' head—the ' great cosmographer Moses '”! (p. 9). Mr. Winstedt presumably intended this book to be of use to international science, but if so, why has he so ill-advisedly interlarded his otherwise most learned and interesting introduction with comic relief only comprehensible to Englishmen or Americans who know their Dickens and Mark Twain? Kosmas is funny enough of himself without any editorial attempt to make him funnier by means of jarring modern jests, and Mr. Winstedt may be permitted to enjoy, as he does without spoiling things, the good man 's explanation of why the Creation took six days when the Deity could ex hypothesi have done it at a single coup if He had liked; the reason is that the angels were such weak-minded creatures that if He had created everything all at once they would not have understood it at all, so He took six days about it for their sake, in order that they might fully comprehend how it was done in all seriousness and devoutness. But it shows how weak-minded people were themselves already becoming as early as the sixth century. To a civilised man of three centuries before, the idea would have seemed as comic as it does to us. The stupidity of the Dark Ages is already in full blast in the mind of Kosmas the Indian-farer. “What scholar (as the editor quotes from Marion Crawford's ' With the Immortals ') has not laughed at the idea of Kosmas, the Alexandrian, that the sun retired behind a mountain to spend the night? And that the earth, the ocean, and the fabulous mountain were all included and enclosed in a luminous oblong box of the exact shape of the tabernacle of Moses?" ....
Author : John W. McCrindle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317108634
Translated from the Greek, and Edited, with Notes and Introduction. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1897.
Author : Cosmas (Indicopleustès)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Geography, Medieval
ISBN : LCCN:05040746
Author : J. W. McCrindle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1330205197
Excerpt from Kosma Aigyptiou Monachou Christianikē Topographia: The Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk The Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes is one of the prodigies of literature. The boldness and perverse ingenuity with which its author, from a long array of irrelevant scripture texts, seeks to construct an impossible theory of the universe can scarcely fail to astonish everyone who reads it. It made its appearance at that period in the world's history, when Christendom, fast losing the light of Greek learning and culture, was soon to be shrouded in the long night of mediæval ignorance and barbarism. The work reflects with singular distinctness this prominent characteristic of the age which produced it; for while Cosmas, on the one hand, held the principles of the Christian faith combined with others pervading the theology then current which led to the darkening of all true knowledge, he had, on the other hand, a somewhat considerable, if inexact, acquaintance with the philosophical and scientific speculations of the Greeks. He may thus not inaptly be compared to a two-headed Janus, with one face turned to the light of departing day, and the other to the shadows of the coming night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.