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.
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:
- the idea that the pope tried to suppress the number zero or stop doctors from learning about anatomy through dissection of human corpses
- the idea that people in Medieval Europe though the earth was flat (see Myth of the Flat Earth)
He lists 13th century inventions such as spectacles, the mechanical clock, and the windmill.
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.