Illustration from a copy of the 6th century 15 cm square badge

Illustration from a copy of the 6th century `Topographia Christiana' written by the monk Cosmos of Alexandria c.548, vindicating the scriptural account of the world where the Earth is a rectangular plane from which rises a mountain around which the sun revolves at differing heights according to the season, covered by a vaulted roof of the firmament above which lies heaven here represented as the head of Christ, 9th century located at a Private Collection. The Illustration from a copy of the 6th century `Topographia Christiana' written by the monk Cosmos of Alexandria c.548, vindicating the scriptural account of the world where the Earth is a rectangular plane from which rises a mountain around which the sun revolves at differing heights according to the season, covered by a vaulted roof of the firmament above which lies heaven here represented as the head of Christ, 9th century was created around the 9th century.