Flat Earth

Christine Garwood

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ISBN: 9781743292419

Format: Ebook

Pub Date: 01/06/2007

Category: History

Imprint: Macmillan

Price: $12.99

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Hundreds of Victorians believed the earth was flat, duped by the lectures and literature of an obsessive gang of fanatics. It was a scandal that entangled scientists and astonished the general public with its weird theories, bizarre experiments, lawsuits and even death threats. The story bears all the hallmarks of a good Victorian melodrama - and yet the controversy continued into the twentieth century, despite the Apollo missions and widely publicised pictures of the earth from space.

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Dr Christine Garwood is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, and former Research Fellow on the Alfred Russel Wallace Project. Flat Earth is her first book.

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