Alexandr Korol

of a land turtle, the scutes of which divide the plane of the earth into squares.” Once again, squares — again, some kind of matrix. “In the earliest textually represented models of Chinese cosmology, it was believed that the Earth was covered by the sky like a canopy on a chariot, and that this canopy rotated in a horizontal plane, like an umbrella (also called Zhoubi — after the name of the mathematical treatise describing calculations according to this model). By the middle of the Han dynasty, this model was challenged by astronomical observations. It was replaced by the idea of the spherical nature of the cosmos surrounding the Earth.” You see, again it’s all the same, the same matrix, the same wheels. European antiquity, here is Wikipedia, the section on Cosmology. “Some ancient Greek scholars supported the geocentric system of the world, according to which the immobile spherical Earth is at the center of the Universe, around which five planets, the Sun, and the Moon revolve. The heliocentric system of the world proposed by Aristarchus of Samos apparently did not gain the support of the majority of ancient Greek astronomers. The world was considered to be bounded by a sphere of fixed stars. Sometimes another sphere was added, responsible for precession. The subject of debate was the question of what lies beyond the world: the Peripatetics, following Aristotle, believed that outside the world there is nothing (neither matter nor space), while the Stoics believed that there lies an infinite empty space... At the end of antiquity, the religious-mystical teaching of Hermeticism emerged, according to which beyond the world there may exist a realm of immaterial beings — Spirits. Many pre-Socratics believed that the motion of celestial bodies is governed by a giant vortex that gave rise to the Universe. However, after Aristotle, most ancient astronomers believed that the planets are carried in their motion by material spheres composed of a special heavenly element — aether, whose properties have nothing in common with the elements of earth, water, air, and fire that make up the “sublunar world.” The belief in the divine nature of the celestial spheres or luminaries and their animation was widespread. In the Renaissance: “The cosmology of Nicholas of Cusa, presented in the treatise On Learned Ignorance, was innovative. He assumed the material unity of the Universe and considered the Earth to be one of the planets, also in motion; the heavenly bodies are inhabited just like our Earth, and each observer in the Universe has equal grounds to consider themselves motionless.” In his view, the Universe is boundless but finite,