Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians

by JeffreyBurtonRussell (Author), David Noble (Foreword)

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1997
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The illusion that the earth is flat still persists, and this is Russell's attempt to correct it. He discusses geographical knowledge in the Middle Ages, examines what Columbus and his contemporaries really did believe, and looks at how the error was propagated and how it grew.

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The illusion that the earth is flat still persists, and this is Russell's attempt to correct it. He discusses geographical knowledge in the Middle Ages, examines what Columbus and his contemporaries really did believe, and looks at how the error was propagated and how it grew.

$37.09

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 30 Jan 1997
ISBN 10: 027595904X
ISBN 13: 9780275959043