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Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians

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 | #900469 in Books |  1991-08-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.75 x6.00 x1.00l, | File type: PDF | 132 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Old Myths Die Hard|By Nick Peters|Recently, I had a conversation at a store with a salesman who was telling me that people in the past believed the Earth was flat, which I raised disagreement with. Online, one can hear this as a common objection. Often it is treated as an axiom and with the idea that the church was teaching otherwise. Consider this quote from Ingersoll in his e|About the Author||JEFFREY BURTON RUSSELL is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a frequent contributor to history volumes, including the Handbook of World History and The Transformation of the Western World. D

Neither Christopher Columbus, nor his contemporaries, believed the earth was flat. Yet this curious illusion persists today, firmly established with the help of the media, textbooks, teachers--even noted historians.

Inventing the Flat Earth is Jeffrey Burton Russell's attempt to set the record straight. He begins with a discussion of geographical knowledge in the Middle Ages, examining what Columbus and his contemporaries actually did believe, and th...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians   |  Jeffrey Burton Russell. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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