Status
Available
Local notes
940.1 Ann
Collection
Genres
Publication
Philomel (1990), Edition: Reprint, 49 pages
Description
Discusses how medieval people viewed the world before it was widely understood and accepted that the world is round and rotates around the sun.
Subjects
Awards
Gouden Griffel (Zilveren — 1981)
CCBC Choices (1980)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
49 p.; 9.96 inches
User reviews
LibraryThing member cnb
A hopeless muddle. The book perpetuates the old myth that medieval people believed the earth was flat, and that Columbus sailed to show otherwise. It states that medieval people believed God moved the celestial spheres "and so put an end to questions"; this is both false and slanted. It imagines
The illustrations are nice, but not really up to Anno's standards.
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that witch hunts were characteristic of medieval society (whereas in fact they were an early modern phenomenon). The illustrations are nice, but not really up to Anno's standards.
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Pages
49