Book ID: CBB508681797

The Globe: How the Earth Became Round (2023)

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Hannam, James (Author)


Reaktion Books


Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 376
Language: English

The Globe tells the story of humanity’s quest to discover the form of the world: that the Earth is round and not flat. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, from where it spread to Baghdad and Central Asia. In early medieval Europe, Christians debated the matter, but long before the time of Columbus, the Catholic Church had accepted that Earth is a ball. However, it wasn’t until the seventeenth century that Jesuit missionaries finally convinced the Chinese that their traditional square-earth cosmology was mistaken. An accessible challenge to long-established beliefs about the history of ideas, The Globe shows how the realization that our planet is a sphere deserves to be considered the first great scientific achievement.

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Authors & Contributors
Amīn, Majdī Yùsef
Ariel, Avraham
Aubin, David
Baumgärtner, Ingrid
Berger, Nora Ariel
Carman, Christián Carlos
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Journal for the History of Arabic Science
Science and Education
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Harvard University
Brepols Publishers
Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag
Les Belles Lettres
Oxford University Press
Praeger Publishers
Concepts
Geodesy
Cartography
Earth (planet)
Measurement
Longitude and latitude
Astronomy
People
Cleomedes
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
al-Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
Bolotov, Aleksei Pavlovich
Cassini de Thury, César François
Galilei, Galileo
Time Periods
19th century
Medieval
17th century
18th century
Ancient
16th century
Places
Rome (Italy)
Europe
Germany
Greece
Italy
Portugal
Institutions
Observatório Nacional (Brazil)
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
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