Myth of the flat Earth
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| - | '''''God's Philosophers''''' is a book by [[James Hannam]] which rebuts the idea ‘that there was no science worth mentioning in the Middle Ages. | + | The '''myth of the Flat Earth''' is the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the [[Middle Ages]] saw the [[Earth]] as [[Flat Earth|flat]], instead of [[Spherical Earth|spherical]]. |
| - | Hannam argues that "medieval scholars overturned the false wisdom of [[ancient Greece]] to lay the foundations of [[modern science]]." The book rebuts a number of modern canards about [[Medieval Christianity]], such as: | + | ==See also== |
| - | * the idea that the pope tried to suppress the number [[zero]] or stop doctors from learning about anatomy through [[dissection]] of human corpses | + | * [[Christopher Columbus]] |
| - | * the idea that people in [[Middle Ages|Medieval Europe]] though the earth was flat (see [[Myth of the Flat Earth]]) | + | * [[Flat Earth]] |
| - | He lists 13th century inventions such as [[glasses|spectacles]], the [[clock|mechanical clock]], and the [[windmill]]. | + | * [[List of common misconceptions]] |
| + | * [[T and O map]] | ||
| - | The book was published in the UK in 2009 by Icon Books Ltd. (ISBN 978-1848310704) and is included in the short list for the Royal Society's 2010 Science Book Prize. The US edition was published in 2011 by Regnery Press under the title ''The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution''. | ||
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The myth of the Flat Earth is the modern misconception that the prevailing cosmological view during the Middle Ages saw the Earth as flat, instead of spherical.
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