The Church Fathers · c. 660–670
The Cosmography
Anania Shirakatsi · c. 610–685
What it is
A treatise on the shape of the earth, the movement of the heavens, and the calendar, by a scholar who travelled to Byzantium to find someone who could teach him mathematics.
Why it lasted
The foundation of Armenian science, and evidence of a scholarly network reaching from the Caucasus into the Greek world.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
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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