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Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea
Christine Garwood
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| #920579 in Books | 2008-08-05 | 2008-08-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.08 x1.44 x6.86l,1.56 | File type: PDF | 448 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting, though bogs down in too much detail in places|By Daryl|Who knew that there were still people who believe the world is flat? The author takes you on a tour of flat earth beliefs and societies from the early Greeks (who knew the earth was round) through Columbus (who also knew) to modern times. Some of the rationalizations the believers use are ludicrous, such as t|From Publishers Weekly|Garwood, historian of science at the Open University in England, presents a thoroughly enjoyable first book. Examining the belief that the world is flat from a wide array of perspectives, she makes some important points. She demonstrates q
Contrary to popular belief fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the earth was round. The idea of a spherical world had been widely accepted in educated circles from as early as the fourth century b.c. Yet, bizarrely, it was not until the supposedly more rational nineteenth century that the notion of a ?at earth really took hold. Even more bizarrely, it persists to this day, despite Apollo missions...
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