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The Globe: How the Earth Became Round
By James Hannam
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By James Hannam
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A New Scientist Best Book of 2023
From Babylon to Columbus and beyond, a journey across millennia andyesthe 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 medieva...
From Babylon to Columbus and beyond, a journey across millennia andyesthe 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 medieva...
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