When the Earth Was Flat - 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 When the Earth Was Flat write by Graeme Donald. This book was released on 2012-09-06. When the Earth Was Flat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perfect for anyone with an interest in our scientific history, When the Earth Was Flat exposes the scientific theories that were once widely believed to be true but have since been disproved.
Flat Earth
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.
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.
When the Earth Was Flat
When the Earth Was Flat - 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 When the Earth Was Flat write by Dirk L. Couprie. This book was released on 2018-11-01. When the Earth Was Flat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a sequel to Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology (Springer 2011). With the help of many pictures, the reader is introduced into the way of thinking of ancient believers in a flat earth. The first part offers new interpretations of several Presocratic cosmologists and a critical discussion of Aristotle’s proofs that the earth is spherical. The second part explains and discusses the ancient Chinese system called gai tian. The last chapter shows that, inadvertently, ancient arguments and ideas return in the curious modern flat earth cosmologies.
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.
