![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book does not take an objective tone or angle and it is assumed from beginning to end that the reader, just like the author, 100% believes the doctrine of heliocentrism, and it is never questioned anywhere throughout. This book is like Kaitlyn Jenner writing "The History of Being a Straight Hetero Man." Christine Garwood still believes herself to be living on a tilting, wobbling, spinning space ball careening through an infinite vacuum, but decided to attempt writing a book about the history of our Flat Earth. Thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating, Flat Earth is social and intellectual history at its best. Where else could eccentric aristocrats, fundamentalist preachers, and conspiracy theorists appear alongside Copernicus, Newton, and NASA, except in an account of such a legendary misconception? Ranging from ancient Greece, through Victorian England, to modern-day America, this is a story that encompasses religion, science, and pseudoscience, as well as a spectacular array of people and places. Flat Earth is the first definitive study of one of history’s most notorious and persistent ideas, and it evokes all the intellectual, philosophical, and spiritual turmoil of the modern age. ![]() Even more bizarrely, it persists to this day, despite Apollo missions and widely publicized pictures of the decidedly spherical Earth from space.īased 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 to religion and the making of human knowledge about the natural world. Yet, bizarrely, it was not until the supposedly more rational nineteenth century that the notion of a flat earth really took hold. The idea of a spherical world had been widely accepted in educated circles from as early as the fourth century b.c. Contrary to popular belief fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the earth was round. ![]()
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