Views of the World Links

Mayan

http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/legacy/mayan_lost_tribes/heavens.html

http://physics.unr.edu/grad/welser/astro/mayan.html

http://www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mmc03eng.html

http://www.revelation2seven.org/UsedImages/pg208.gif

Incan (Peruvian)

http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/archy/aymara/inca_heartland.html

http://www.ancientperu.com/index.html

Hindu

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/t/tu/turtles_all_the_way_down.htm

http://www.fotosearch.com/ART239/sdc046/

China

http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/setting.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China

http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/welcome.html

http://www.besthistorysites.net/AncientBiblical_China.shtml

Homeric (Ancient Greek) View

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer

http://www.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/literature/world_literature/homer.html

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ancient%20Web%20Pages/105.html

(although… maybe a better representation of Herodotus’ view…)

Herodotus (Ancient Greek) View

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ancient%20Web%20Pages/109.html

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ancient%20Web%20Pages/AncientL.html

http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodotus/herodotus01.htm

http://www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk/images/Maps/Hecateuss.jpg

http://www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk/maps.htm

and…

http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/WASHBR12.ART

Eratosthenes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

http://www.eranet.gr/eratosthenes/html/eoc.html

http://astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses//astro201/eratosthenes.htm

http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/observatory/eratosthenes/

(but with a wrong map…)

Ptolemy

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ptolemy.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy

http://www.empereur.com/ptolemy.html

http://academic.udayton.edu/BradHume/hst340/340diagrams.htm

(Nice diagram of the Ptolemaic solar system universe…)

Dark Ages

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/fallofrome_article_01.shtml

http://octopus.gma.org/space1/nav_map.html

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/romefallarticles/a/fallofrome.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=mappa%20mundi&sa=N&tab=wi

Dante Alighieri

http://www.greatdante.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante

http://academic.udayton.edu/BradHume/hst340/340diagrams.htm

(but the diagram is sort of… upside down)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dante.htm

http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/new/

Christopher Columbus

http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus

http://www.smommuseum.ch/media/images/stamps/174.gif

http://www.my-etest.co.uk/displayquiz.asp?id=153

(includes a nice map of the first voyage)