 | Gaston Maspero - 1894 - Počet stránok 828
...— iaumd, ioma — was the name by which they called it.1 They therefore never sought its source. They imagined the whole universe to be a large box,...was from south to north, and its least from east to west.2 The earth, with its alternate continents and seas, formed the bottom of the box ; it was a narrow,... | |
 | Gaston Maspero - 1894 - Počet stránok 824
...rectangular in form, whose greatest diameter was from south to north, and its least from east to west.2 The earth, with its alternate continents and seas,...oblong, and slightly concave floor, with Egypt in its centre.3 The sky stretched over it like an iron ceiling, flat according to some,4 vaulted according... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 1907 - Počet stránok 560
...M. Maspero has given a version of what he supposes the Egyptians thought of the earth. He tells us "they imagined the whole universe to be a large box,...oblong, and slightly concave floor, with Egypt in its centre." M. Maspero's oblong box, which is longest from the south to the north, is just a figure of... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 2007 - Počet stránok 682
...M. Maspero has given a version of what he supposes the Egyptians thought of the earth. He tells us "they imagined the whole universe to be a large box,...oblong, and slightly concave floor, with Egypt in its centre". M, Maspero's oblong box, which is longest from the south to the north, is just a figure of... | |
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Egyptians therefore never sought its source. They imagined the whole universe to be a large box, nearly rectangular in form, whose greatest diameter was from south to north, and its least from east to west. The earth, with its alternate continents and... 