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The Church Fathers · c. 547–550
Christian Topography
Cosmas Indicopleustes · 6th century
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What it is
A merchant-turned-monk argues that the universe is shaped like the tabernacle of Moses, and reports at first hand on the Christians of Ceylon and the Malabar coast.
Why it lasted
Wrong about nearly everything cosmological and invaluable on everything commercial — the earliest testimony to organised Christianity in India.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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