Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians

by Jeffrey Burton Russell

Hardcover, 1991

Status

2022

Call number

E112 .R93

Publication

Praeger (1991), Edition: 1st Edition, 117 pages

Description

Arguing against the fable that when Columbus discovered America he proved that the Earth is round, to the astonishment of his contemporaries, this work discusses geographical knowledge in the Middle Ages, as well as why and how the error was first propagated in the 1820s and 1830s.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

117 p.; 6 inches

ISBN

0275939561 / 9780275939564

Barcode

34662000521564
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