![]() Meticulously researched and compellingly readable, Flat Earth is the first definitive account of this infamous idea. Even more bizarrely, it persists to this day, despite Apollo missions and widely publicized pictures of the decidedly spherical Earth from space. Yet, bizarrely, it was not until the supposedly more rational nineteenth century that the notion that the world might actually be flat really took hold. The idea of the world as a sphere had been widely accepted in scientific, philosophical and even religious circles from as early as the fourth century BC. Social and intellectual history at its best – and strangest.Ĭontrary to popular belief, fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the world was round.
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