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Cosmas Indicopleustes

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(i.e. traversing India), an Egyptian monk, living probably about the middle of the 6th century. He visited as a merchant Egypt, India, and other Eastern countries, and wrote a work, entitled Χριστιανικὴ τοπογραφία, in which he undertook to substitute for the pagan geography of the ancients a new Christian system of geography, based upon all kinds of delusions. His work is contained in the second volume of Montfaucon's Collectio nova patraum Gr. (Paris, 1707).

Bibliography Information
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Cosmas Indicopleustes'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​c/cosmas-indicopleustes.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.