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Flat Earth Christine Garwood

Flat Earth By Christine Garwood

Flat Earth by Christine Garwood


£7.99
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Summary

The first book to unveil the strange crusade to prove that science is fiction and the earth is flat

Flat Earth Summary

Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea by Christine Garwood

Contrary to popular belief, fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the world was round. 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. Bizarrely, it was not until the supposedly more rational nineteenth century that the notion that the world might actually be flat really took hold. Even more bizarrely, it persists to this day. Based on a range of original sources, Garwood's history of flat-earth beliefs - from the Babylonians to the present day - raises issues central to the history and philosophy of science, its relationship with religion and the making of human knowledge about the natural world. Flat Earth is the first definitive study of one of history's most notorious and persistent ideas, and evokes all the intellectual, philosophical and spiritual turmoil of the modern age.

'Highly entertaining and often hilarious ... an enjoyable romp through the dottier history of scientific and religious eccentricity' Sunday Times

`This entertaining history of the Flat Earth movement is full of crazy characters and fascinating details' Daily Telegraph

`Wonderful ... an intriguing chronicle of 150 years of self- delusion' Financial Times

About Christine Garwood

Christine Garwood studied history as an undergraduate and was later awarded a doctorate in history of science. She has been a Research Fellow at the Open University and is currently a freelance writer and researcher.

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GOR001395312
9780330432894
0330432893
Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea by Christine Garwood
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
20080418
448
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