Identity / Anania Shirakatsi: Geography, Cosmology, and Other Works

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This volume presents a collection of writings by Anania Shirakatsi—a medieval Armenian scholar, calendarist, cosmologist, mathematician, and geographer. It affirms that Armenian scientific thought was established on firm foundations from an early period. Many of Shirakatsi’s works remain relevant to this day. His Ashkharhatsuyts (Geography), in particular, encourages renewed appreciation and understanding of Armenia’s geographical knowledge and worldview.

Anania Shirakatsi is regarded as one of the pillars of medieval Armenian science. Prominent literary scholar Manuk Abeghyan considered him the founder of natural sciences in the Armenian tradition, writing: "Even though Armenians had some familiarity with calendars before Anania, it was this ‘calculator’ who, through his numerous writings, became a pioneer of calendrical science, cosmology, and meteorology.”

“Every being implies decay, and within every decay, the seed of being is conceived. It is through this harmless contradiction that the world is able to endure.”— Anania Shirakatsi, 7th century

“The earth, I believe, is like an egg: just as the yolk is round and at the center, the white surrounds it, and the shell encloses it on all four sides—so the earth is at the center, air surrounds it, and the sky encircles it on all sides.”— Anania Shirakatsi, 7th century

Features
ISBN:	978-9939-75-782-7
Pages:	272
Printing:	Black and White
Publication date:	2022
Cover:	Hardcover
Author:	Anania Shirakatsi
Dimensions:	14.5 x 20 cm
Language:	Armenian
Weight:	450 gram