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Flat Earth - The History Of An Infamous Idea. Christine Garwood
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FLAT EARTH
THE HISTORY OF AN INFAMOUS IDEA
THE HISTORY OF AN INFAMOUS IDEA
AUTHOR: Christine Garwood
PUBLISHED: Macmillan, London. 2007
FORMAT: Hb, 436pp, illustrated, notes, bibliography, index
CONDITION: Used...ex-library stock, so expect library stamps/marks/stickers.
Dust-jacket, good condition.
Book - in good, sound & clean condition.
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 19th century that the notion of a flat Earth really took hold.
Meticulously researched and compellingly readable, the author provides the first definitive account of this ‘infamous idea’. She explodes the myths surrounding Columbus and the battles between science and religion, explores the wilder shores of flat-earth belief and esthablishes, without doubt, that the world is most emphatically not flat.
From Samuel ‘Parallax’ Rowbotham and his slick advocacy of Zetetic, or free-thinking, astronomy to Darwin’s friend and collaborator, Alfred Russel Wallace, and his wager with the flat-earther John Hampden; from Lady Blount’s earnest pamphleteering in the flat-earth cause to Wilbur Glenn Voliva’s belief that there was no such thing as gravity; from the English Flat Earth Society’s campaign against the Apollo missions to the work of sister organizations in America and Canada, this book is a remarkable study of strange obsessions and sometimes stranger individuals.
Thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating, it is social and intellectual history at its best.
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 19th century that the notion of a flat Earth really took hold.
Meticulously researched and compellingly readable, the author provides the first definitive account of this ‘infamous idea’. She explodes the myths surrounding Columbus and the battles between science and religion, explores the wilder shores of flat-earth belief and esthablishes, without doubt, that the world is most emphatically not flat.
From Samuel ‘Parallax’ Rowbotham and his slick advocacy of Zetetic, or free-thinking, astronomy to Darwin’s friend and collaborator, Alfred Russel Wallace, and his wager with the flat-earther John Hampden; from Lady Blount’s earnest pamphleteering in the flat-earth cause to Wilbur Glenn Voliva’s belief that there was no such thing as gravity; from the English Flat Earth Society’s campaign against the Apollo missions to the work of sister organizations in America and Canada, this book is a remarkable study of strange obsessions and sometimes stranger individuals.
Thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating, it is social and intellectual history at its best.
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