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Mental pictures about the universe

Mental pictures about the universe. Science and Religion in Schools Project - Unit 3a. Many ancient cultures such as those of the Egyptians and Mesopotamians saw the Earth as a flat plate. The sky was usually flat but sometimes curved, and held up by four pillars.

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Mental pictures about the universe

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  1. Mental pictures aboutthe universe Science and Religion in Schools Project - Unit 3a

  2. Many ancient cultures such as those of the Egyptians and Mesopotamians saw the Earth as a flat plate

  3. The sky was usually flat but sometimes curved, and held up by four pillars

  4. Across the sky the sky gods (the planets, sun and moon) moved, passing each night beyond the pillars into a world below the earth – the underworld. Each morning they would rise again in the eastern sky to begin a new day.

  5. Different ideas The Egyptians thought of the sky as a heavenly river – a reflection of the River Nile. The Mesopotamians thought that a huge watery chamber existed above the visible sky. This water fell as rain and then drained away through cracks in the earth into the great underground waters of Apsu (Mesopotamian) or Nun (Egyptian) out of which the world had first emerged when it was created.

  6. Mental pictures aboutthe universe Science and Religion in Schools Project - Unit 3a

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