The Earth is Round: Part II

I've just finished reading a fascinating account of the "Flat Error"--not the idea that the Earth is flat, but the idea that medieval (or sometimes other) people thought the Earth was flat, Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by Jeffrey Burton Russell (NY: Praeger, 1991). ( More about the Flat Error and the book )

The Earth is Round: Part II

I've just finished reading a fascinating account of the "Flat Error"--not the idea that the Earth is flat, but the idea that medieval (or sometimes other) people thought the Earth was flat, Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by Jeffrey Burton Russell (NY: Praeger, 1991). ( More about the Flat Error and the book )