![]() ![]() Modern flat Earth beliefs are promoted by organizations and individuals advocating that the Earth is flat while denying the Earth's sphericity, contrary to over two millennia of scientific consensus. The observable, contemporary scientific view of the Earth as a rotating spherical globe, which flat Earth believers contest. ![]() Twenty-two images of the Earth taken from space by the DSCOVR satellite. Projections of the sphere like the azimuthal equidistant projection have been co-opted as images of the flat Earth model depicting Antarctica as an ice wall surrounding a disk-shaped Earth. For similar topics, see Flat Earth (disambiguation). It explodes the myths surrounding Columbus and the battles between science and religion, explores the wilder shores of flat-Earth belief and establishes, without doubt, that the world is most emphatically not flat.įrom Samuel ‘Parallax’ Rowbotham and his slick advocacy of Zetetic – or free-thinking – astronomy to Darwin’s friend and collaborator Alfred Russel Wallace, and his wager with the flat-Earther John Hampden from Lady Blount’s earnest pamphleteering in the flat-Earth’s cause to Wilbur Glenn Voliva’s belief that there was no such thing as gravity from the English Flat Earth Society’s campaign against the Apollo missions to the work of sister organizations in America and Canada, Flat Earth is a remarkable study of strange obsessions and sometimes stranger individuals.This article is about modern-day beliefs that the Earth is flat. Meticulously researched and compellingly readable, Flat Earth is the first definitive account of this infamous idea. Even more bizarrely, it persists to this day, despite Apollo missions and widely publicized pictures of the decidedly spherical Earth from space. Yet, bizarrely, it was not until the supposedly more rational nineteenth century that the notion that the world might actually be flat really took hold. The idea of the world as a sphere had been widely accepted in scientific, philosophical and even religious circles from as early as the fourth century BC. ![]() Social and intellectual history at its best – and strangest.Ĭontrary to popular belief, fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the world was round. ![]()
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