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| Keywords: 1728 Calmet Map of the Ancient World Showing the Creation of the Universe - Geographicus - AncientWorld-calmet-1728.jpg A curious c 1728 mapping of the ancient world and the cosmos rendered from an arcane Biblical perspective Though composed well after the discovery of the New World and the circumnavigations of Magellan and Drake this two part diagram represents a very medieval view of the world The upper map though ostensibly the Eastern Hemisphere actually follows a medieval doctrine advocated by Francis Bacon That is the belief that the physical earth was large ball of rock resting within a great sphere of water The habitable lands of the earth Asia Europe and Africa were pieces of this rock that emerged from the waters when God caused the ball of rock Earth to float in the northern part of the watery sphere - much as a baseball might float in a bucket of water This argument was used in the middle ages to prove that the antipodes or the lands south of the equator must not emerge from the sea for necessarily if the earth is floating at the northern part of the watery sphere the southern parts must be covered fully by deep seas Hence the darker shading indicating fathomless depths in the southern parts of the map The lower sphere depicts the cosmos from a pre-Copernican perspective Earth rests at the center of the universe around which the Moon Sun here drawn as benevolent God and the stars rotate The curious diagram was included in Augustin Calmet's influential 18th century Biblical dictionary 1728 undated Size in 8 12 5 object history credit line accession number AncientWorld-calmet-1728 Calmet Augustin <i>Dictionnaire Historique Critique Chronologique Geographique de la Bible</i> 1728 Geographicus-source PD-Art-100 Maps by Antoine Augustin Calmet 1728 maps 1720s maps of the world Geocentric model Maps in French Biblical maps | ||||
