Flat earth : the history of an infamous idea
"Based on a range of original sources, Christine 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. 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. Ranging from ancient Greece, through Victorian England, to modern-day America, this is a story that encompasses religion, science, and pseudoscience, as well as an array of people and places."--Jacket
Print Book,English, 2008
1st Thomas Dunne books edView all formats and editions
Thomas Dunne Books, New York, 2008
History
xii, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
9780312382087, 0312382081
184822945
The Columbus blunder
Surveying the Earth
A public sensation
The infamous flat-Earth wager
Trials and tribulations
Lady Blount and the new zetetics
Flat-Earth utopia
Man on the moon?
The view from the edge
The Californian connection
Epilogue
Myths and meanings
Appendix
Abbreviations