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020			_a9781789147582 _q(hardback)
020			_a1789147581 _q(hardback)
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092			_a525.1 _bH243
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aHannam, James, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe globe : _bhow the Earth became round / _cJames Hannam.
264		1	_aLondon : _bReaktion Books, _c2023
264		4	_c©2023
300			_a376 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 313-358) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 'The Blue Marble' - Babylon: 'The four quarters of the Earth' -- Egypt: 'The black loam and the red sand' -- Persia: 'Order and deceit' -- Archaic Greece: 'The Shield of Achilles' -- The origins of Greek thought: 'Equally distant from all extremes' -- The Presocratics and Socrates: 'Floating on air' -- Plato: 'Flat or round, whichever is better' -- Aristotle: 'Necessarily spherical' -- Greek debate on the shape of the world: 'Either round or triangular or some other shape' -- Romans on the globe: 'The circle of the world' -- India: 'The mountain at the North Pole' -- The Sassanian Persians: 'Good thoughts, good words, good deeds' -- Early Judaism: 'From the ends of the Earth' -- Christianity: 'All things established by divine command' -- Islam: 'The Earth laid out like a carpet' -- Later Judaism: 'The wise men of the nations have defeated the wise men of Israel' -- Europe in the Early Middle Ages: 'Equally round in all directions' -- High medieval views of the world: 'The Earth has the shape of a globe' -- Columbus and Copernicus: 'New worlds will be found' -- China: 'The heavens are round and the Earth is square' -- China and the West: 'Like the yolk in a hen's egg' -- The globe goes global: 'At the round Earth's imagined corners' -- Today: 'There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world'.
520			_aThe Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the shape of the world. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, and from there it spread to Baghdad and Central Asia. In early medieval Europe, Christians debated the matter but long before the time of Columbus, the Catholic Church had accepted that the Earth is round and not flat. However, it wasn't until the seventeenth century that Jesuit missionaries finally convinced the Chinese that their traditional square-earth cosmology was mistaken. An accessible challenge to long-established beliefs about the history of ideas, The Globe shows how the realization that our planet is a sphere deserves to be considered the first great scientific achievement.
650		0	_aPhysical sciences.
651		0	_aEarth (Planet) _954023
655		7	_aCreative nonfiction. _2lcgft _9297933
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