Category: Ancient cosmography

The list below is believed complete, though membership — like everything here — is subject to revision.

Anaximander — The Milesian who first set the Earth adrift, unsupported at the centre of things — and left it, all the same, flat on top.
Babylonian Map of the World — The oldest known map of the whole world — a clay disc ringed by a "Bitter River", and so also the oldest flat-earth map.
Egyptian cosmology — The world of Geb and Nut: a flat earth and an arched sky, held apart by a god posted permanently between them.
Firmament — The solid dome of the sky in ancient and biblical cosmology — figurative to most, load-bearing to the Aetheric Concord.
Gai tian — The oldest Chinese cosmology: a round heaven canopy over a flat, square earth — and the gnomon that measured its height.
Hindu cosmology — The Puranic world: a vast flat disc of ring-continents around Mount Meru, set in cycles of time a single day of which outlasts the Earth's age.
Norse cosmology — The walled middle-world of the Eddas: a flat Midgard ringed by the world-serpent and roofed with a giant's skull.