Author: Anatoliĭ Nikolaevich Tomilin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9785050004482
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 79

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Discusses how people discovered the shape of the earth, with illustrations, maps and diagrams.

Author: Anatolij Nikolaevič Tomilin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9785050016096
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 79

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Discusses how people discovered the shape of the earth, with illustrations, maps and diagrams.

Author: Jeffrey B. Russell
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Reveals the facts behind the deceiving myths that have been professed about Columbus and his time.

Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840220698
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 724

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Modern views of Columbus are overshadowed by guilt about past conquests. Credit for discovering the New World, we are told, belongs to its original inhabitants rather than any European, and Columbus gave those inhabitants nothing apart from death, disease and destruction. Yet, for the Old World of Europe the four voyages of Columbus brought revelation where before there had been only myths and guesswork.People had thought it was only the great distance that made it impossible to reach Asia sailing west from Spain. No one had predicted that a vast continent stood in the way. And indeed, for Columbus himself, the revolution of understanding was too much to comprehend. He had counted on a new route to Asia that would bring him glory, riches and titles, and the thought of an unknown and undeveloped continent held no attractions. The trials and disappointments of the great explorer are graphically detailed in this biography first published in 1828, when Washington Irving was America's most famous writer.

Author: Christine Garwood
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429986948
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 623

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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.

Author: Larrie D. Ferreiro
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465017231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Describes the early 18th-century expedition of scientists sent by France and Spain to colonial Peru to measure the degree of equatorial latitude, which could resolve the debate between whether the earth was spherical or flattened at the poles.

Author: Arthur V. White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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Author: John Maddox
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN: 9780684863009
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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What wonders of science will the 21st century bring? John Maddox takes up this challenge by describing precisely what remains to be discovered. Building on twenty-three years' experience at the helm of the world's preeminent science magazine, Nature, Maddox identifies new areas of discovery in physics, biology, health, intelligence, and global catastrophe. As Maddox shows, the rate of scientific discovery will continue to accelerate, hurtling us toward ever more exciting discoveries in the next century.

Author: Jonathan Schell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804737029
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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These two books, which helped focus national attention on the movement for a nuclear freeze, are published in one volume.

Author: William Carpenter
Publisher: Ravenio Books
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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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.