At the origin, after the separation of hot and cold, a ball of flame appeared that surrounded Earth like bark on a tree. In his system the celestial bodies turned at different distances. Anaximander considered the Sun as a huge object (larger than the land of Peloponnesus ), and consequently, he realized how far from Earth it might be. The flat top forms the inhabited world, which is surrounded by a circular oceanic mass. Its curious shape is that of a cylinder with a height one-third of its diameter. 6th century BCE – Anaximander conceives a mechanical, non-mythological model of the world: the Earth floats very still in the centre of the infinite, not supported by anything.Also during this time period, the Greeks established that the Earth is spherical rather than flat. Democritus further detailed that these worlds varied in distance, size the presence, number and size of their suns and moons and that they are subject to destructive collisions. 6th–4th century BCE – Greek philosophers, as early as Anaximander, introduce the idea of multiple or even infinite universes.Contemporary Biblical cosmology reflects the same view of a flat, circular Earth swimming on water and overarched by the solid vault of the firmament to which are fastened the stars. 6th century BCE – The Babylonian Map of the World shows the Earth surrounded by the cosmic ocean, with seven islands arranged around it so as to form a seven-pointed star.The firmament, Sheol and tehom are depicted. These cycles have and will last forever, driven by desires.Įarly Hebrew conception of the cosmos. Innumerable universes exist simultaneously. The universe remains manifest for 4.32 billion years and unmanifest for an equal length. Primal matter remains manifest for 311.04 trillion years and unmanifest for an equal length. 15th–11th century BCE – The Rigveda of Hinduism has some cosmological hymns, particularly in the late book 10, notably the Nasadiya Sukta which describes the origin of the universe, originating from the monistic Hiranyagarbha or "Golden Egg". 16th century BCE – Mesopotamian cosmology has a flat, circular Earth enclosed in a cosmic ocean.
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