Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea

by Christine Garwood

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0312382081

ISBN13:9780312382087

Release Date:August 2008

Publisher:Thomas Dunne Books

Length:436 Pages

Weight:1.66 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.6" x 9.5"

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