Flat Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flat Earth write by Christine Garwood. This book was released on 2008-08-05. Flat Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contrary to popular belief fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the earth was round. The idea of a spherical world had been widely accepted in educated circles from as early as the fourth century B.C. Yet, bizarrely, it was not until the supposedly more rational nineteenth century that the notion of a flat earth really took hold. Even more bizarrely, it persists to this day, despite Apollo missions and widely publicized pictures of the decidedly spherical Earth from space. 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 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 a spectacular array of people and places. 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? Thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating, Flat Earth is social and intellectual history at its best.
Off the Edge
Off the Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Off the Edge write by Kelly Weill. This book was released on 2022-02-22. Off the Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A history of the Flat Earth movement and a look at the recent boom in conspiratorial thinking in America"--
Flat Earth News
Flat Earth News - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flat Earth News write by Nick Davies. This book was released on 2011-11-30. Flat Earth News available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Does ‘fake news’ really exist? Find out from the ultimate insider. After years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies, in this shocking exposé, reveals what really goes on behind the scenes of this contentious industry. From a prestigious newspaper that allowed intelligence agencies to plant fiction in its columns, to the newsroom that routinely rejected stories due to racial bias, to the number of papers that accepted cash bribes. Gripping, thought-provoking and revelatory, this is an insider’s look at one of the most tainted professions. ‘Meticulous, fair-minded and utterly gripping’ Telegraph ‘Powerful and timely...his analysis is fair, meticulously researched and fascinating’ Observer
One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe
One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe write by William Carpenter . This book was released on 2015-06-28. One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much may be gathered, indirectly, from the arguments in these pages, as to the real nature of the Earth on which we live and of the heavenly bodies which were created for us. The reader is requested to be patient in this matter and not expect a whole flood of light to burst in upon him at once, through the dense clouds of opposition and prejudice which hang all around. Old ideas have to be gotten rid of, by some people, before they can entertain the new; and this will especially be the case in the matter of the Sun, about which we are taught, by Mr. Proctor, as follows: “The globe of the Sun is so much larger than that of the Earth that no less than 1,250,000 globes as large as the Earth would be wanted to make up together a globe as large as the Sun.” Whereas, we know that, as it is demonstrated that the Sun moves round over the Earth, its size is proportionately less. We can then easily understand that Day and Night, and the Seasons are brought about by his daily circuits round in a course concentric with the North, diminishing in their extent to the end of June, and increasing until the end of December, the equatorial region being the area covered by the Sun’s mean motion. If, then, these pages serve but to arouse the spirit of enquiry, the author will be satisfied.
The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0]
The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0] write by Thomas L. Friedman. This book was released on 2007-08-07. The World Is Flat [Further Updated and Expanded; Release 3.0] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.
