Neither Christopher Columbus nor his contemporaries thought the earth was flat. Yet this curious illusion persists today, firmly established with the help of the media, textbooks, teachers, and even noted historians. This is Russell's attempt to set the record straight. He begins with a discussion of geographical knowledge in the Middle Ages, examining what Columbus and his contemporaries actually did believe, and then moves to a look at how the error was first propagated in the 1820s and 1830s and then snowballed to outrageous proportions by the late 19th-century. Russell also discusses why we allow this error to persist. Do we prefer to languish in a comfortable and familiar error rather than discover the truth?
Product Identifiers
Publisher
ABC-Clio
ISBN-13
9780275959043
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96479708
Product Key Features
Book Title
Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians
Author
Jeffrey B. Russell
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Geography & Geosciences, History
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jeffrey B. Russell
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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