Flat Earth : the history of an infamous idea / Christine Garwood.
Flat Earth : the history of an infamous idea / Christine Garwood.
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London : Macmillan, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N525.1/1
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English
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xii, 436 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Prologue - the Columbus blunder -- 1 Surveying the earth -- 2 A public sensation -- 3 The infamous flat-earth wager -- 4 Trials and tribulations -- 5 Lady Blount and the New Zetetics -- 6 Flat-earth utopia -- 7 Man on the moon? -- 8 The view from the edge -- 9 The Californian connection -- Epilogue...
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Publisher
London : Macmillan, 2007.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2007.
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"Contrary to popular belief, fostered in countless classrooms across the world, Christopher Columbus was not the first to 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 BC. Yet, bizarrely, it was not until the supposedly more rational nineteenth centu...
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Flat Earth : the history of an infamous idea / Christine Garwood.
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 401-423.
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N525.1/1
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74VK7r4E0P4b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7r4E0P4b
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140504702X (hbk.) :
9781405047029 (hbk.) :
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525.1
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991022849509702626
