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Author | : Anatoliĭ Nikolaevich Tomilin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : 9785050004482 |
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Discusses how people discovered the shape of the earth, with illustrations, maps and diagrams.
Author | : Anatolij Nikolaevič Tomilin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : 9785050016096 |
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Discusses how people discovered the shape of the earth, with illustrations, maps and diagrams.
Author | : Larrie D. Ferreiro |
Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2011-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465017231 |
Download Measure of the Earth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Describes the early 18th-century expedition of scientists sent by France and Spain to colonial Peru to measure the degree of equatorial latitude, which could resolve the debate between whether the earth was spherical or flattened at the poles.
Author | : Alix Wood |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499408617 |
Download How Do We Know Earth Is Round? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
People used to think that Earth was flat, but now we know it isn’t. How did we find out Earth is actually a sphere? How did science help us understand the shape of our planet? Readers will delight in exploring the history and science behind Earth’s spherical shape. They’ll learn how satellite images and modern technology give us an image of the Earth. Readers will also learn all about early scientists and how they gradually came to enlighten others that the Earth wasn’t flat. Clear diagrams and fascinating sidebars help explain this important science topic, as supplemental science experiments give readers the hands-on experience they need to grasp the topic.
Author | : Washington Irving |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Download The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jeffrey B. Russell |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1997-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Reveals the facts behind the deceiving myths that have been professed about Columbus and his time.
Author | : John Maddox |
Publisher | : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1999-11-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780684863009 |
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What wonders of science will the 21st century bring? John Maddox takes up this challenge by describing precisely what remains to be discovered. Building on twenty-three years' experience at the helm of the world's preeminent science magazine, Nature, Maddox identifies new areas of discovery in physics, biology, health, intelligence, and global catastrophe. As Maddox shows, the rate of scientific discovery will continue to accelerate, hurtling us toward ever more exciting discoveries in the next century.
Author | : Christine Garwood |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 623 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1429986948 |
Download Flat Earth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contrary to popular belief fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the earth was round. The idea of a spherical world had been widely accepted in educated circles from as early as the fourth century B.C. Yet, bizarrely, it was not until the supposedly more rational nineteenth century that the notion of a flat earth really took hold. Even more bizarrely, it persists to this day, despite Apollo missions and widely publicized pictures of the decidedly spherical Earth from space. Based on a range of original sources, Garwood's history of flat-Earth beliefs---from the Babylonians to the present day---raises issues central to the history and philosophy of science, its relationship to religion and the making of human knowledge about the natural world. Flat Earth is the first definitive study of one of history's most notorious and persistent ideas, and it evokes all the intellectual, philosophical, and spiritual turmoil of the modern age. Ranging from ancient Greece, through Victorian England, to modern-day America, this is a story that encompasses religion, science, and pseudoscience, as well as a spectacular array of people and places. Where else could eccentric aristocrats, fundamentalist preachers, and conspiracy theorists appear alongside Copernicus, Newton, and NASA, except in an account of such a legendary misconception? Thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating, Flat Earth is social and intellectual history at its best.
Author | : William Carpenter |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"One Hundred Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe" is a book by an English printer and author in which he concludes his research on the flat-Earth theory, which he developed throughout his life. The book presents his considerations and calculations of sea levels, cartography, rivers, and other natural phenomena that are the basis of the flat Earth theory. It also contains references to ancient writings from different nations of the world.
Author | : Elizabeth Wayland Barber |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2012-01-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400842867 |
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Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? How could anyone think that mortals like Perseus, Beowulf, and St. George actually fought dragons, since dragons don't exist? Strange though they sound, however, these "myths" did not begin as fiction. This absorbing book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies. Geologists' interpretations of how a volcanic cataclysm long ago created Oregon's Crater Lake, for example, is echoed point for point in the local myth of its origin. The Klamath tribe saw it happen and passed down the story--for nearly 8,000 years. We, however, have been literate so long that we've forgotten how myths encode reality. Recent studies of how our brains work, applied to a wide range of data from the Pacific Northwest to ancient Egypt to modern stories reported in newspapers, have helped the Barbers deduce the characteristic principles by which such tales both develop and degrade through time. Myth is in fact a quite reasonable way to convey important messages orally over many generations--although reasoning back to the original events is possible only under rather specific conditions. Our oldest written records date to 5,200 years ago, but we have been speaking and mythmaking for perhaps 100,000. This groundbreaking book points the way to restoring some of that lost history and teaching us about human storytelling.