Inventing the flat earth
by Jeffrey Burton Russell · first published 1991
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Reveals the facts behind the deceiving myths that have been professed about Columbus and his time.
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The linked source material is a condensed version of the book “Inventing The Flat Earth” which I quite enjoyed when it was assigned in a university course.
on “Christopher Columbus Never Set Out to Prove the Earth Was Round” ↗…'since the eighth century, no cosmographer worthy of note has called into question the sphericity of the Earth.'" See further https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth or the book I just found, Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians (http://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Flat-Earth-Columbus-Historia...), about how modern era "historians" created out of whole cloth the idea that it was thought to be flat…
on “What China wants” ↗