Name: The Globe: How the Earth Became Round (en Inglés)
SKU: 64682497
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Author: James Hannam
ISBN: 9781836391128

portada The Globe: How the Earth Became Round (en Inglés)

The Globe: How the Earth Became Round (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Reaktion Books

Autor

James Hannam

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

376

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781836391128

The Globe: How the Earth Became Round (en Inglés)

James Hannam (Autor) · Reaktion Books · Tapa Blanda

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A New Scientist Best Book of 2023 From Babylon to Columbus and beyond, a journey across millennia and--yes--the globe exploring how we came to understand our spherical planet. 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.