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Los teólogos, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 552.
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Cosmas Indicopleustes, Alexandrian merchant, fl. 6th century A. D., author of Topographia Christiana
Fishburn and Hughes: "A sixth-century merchant and traveller born in Alexandria. After sailing to Africa and the Far East (for which he became known as Indicopleustes, or 'Indian sailor'), Cosmas retreated to a monastery and composed the Topographia Christiana (Christian Topography), with the purpose of denying the heathen hypothesis of the shape of the earth and proving the factual truth of biblical definitions of the universe. According to Cosmas, the earth is rectangular, its inhabited part surrounded by the ocean, beyond which lies the Garden of Eden." (53)