Foreword by David Noble Preface The Well-Rounded Planet The Medieval Ball Flattening the Globe The Wrong Way Round Around the Corner Selected Bibliography Index Includes 26 B&W illustrations
Inventing the Flat Earth...is a jewel of a book that provides important new insights into the way historians have interpreted Columbus's achievement. The New York Times Book Review
JEFFREY BURTON RUSSELL is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals and reference volumes and is the author of 16 other books on medieval history, the history of religion, and intellectual history, including A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence (1997).
"Inventing the Flat Earth...is a jewel of a book that provides
important new insights into the way historians have interpreted
Columbus's achievement."-The New York Times Book Review
?[Russell] has written a scholarly, yet very readable,
investigation into [the "flat earth" myth's] background, origins,
and consequences. This book also is well-documented and contains a
good bibliography and numerous helpful illustrations. It can be of
interest to scholars and other serious readers as well as to
students in the classroom dealing with problems of medieval-modern
intellectual history.?-Teaching History
?Inventing the Flat Earth is a well-written and thoroughly
researched account of a fascinating topic. It is strongly
recommended.?-Science & Christian Belief
?Russell conclusively shows how the 'flat earth' myth was concocted
and popularized by Washington Irving and a French erudit and how
the 'flat error' was declared by Darwininst historians, who
compared the denial of Darwin's theory to Columbus's struggle for
acceptance by his scholastic religious contemporaries. The book is
a delightful, provocative, and persuasive interpretation about a
myth that has flitted in and out of popular history.?- Colonial
Latin American Historical Review
?Russell packs a punch in this slender, clearly written, and
engagingly argued volume.?-Booklist
?This book is must reading for all Christians.?-Biblical
Worldview
?This book is must reading for all Christians.??Biblical
Worldview
"�Russell� has written a scholarly, yet very readable,
investigation into �the "flat earth" myth's� background, origins,
and consequences. This book also is well-documented and contains a
good bibliography and numerous helpful illustrations. It can be of
interest to scholars and other serious readers as well as to
students in the classroom dealing with problems of medieval-modern
intellectual history."-Teaching History
"[Russell] has written a scholarly, yet very readable,
investigation into [the "flat earth" myth's] background, origins,
and consequences. This book also is well-documented and contains a
good bibliography and numerous helpful illustrations. It can be of
interest to scholars and other serious readers as well as to
students in the classroom dealing with problems of medieval-modern
intellectual history."-Teaching History
"Inventing the Flat Earth is a well-written and thoroughly
researched account of a fascinating topic. It is strongly
recommended."-Science & Christian Belief
"Russell packs a punch in this slender, clearly written, and
engagingly argued volume."-Booklist
"This book is must reading for all Christians."-Biblical
Worldview
"Russell conclusively shows how the 'flat earth' myth was concocted
and popularized by Washington Irving and a French erudit and how
the 'flat error' was declared by Darwininst historians, who
compared the denial of Darwin's theory to Columbus's struggle for
acceptance by his scholastic religious contemporaries. The book is
a delightful, provocative, and persuasive interpretation about a
myth that has flitted in and out of popular history."- Colonial
Latin American Historical Review
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