Inventing the Flat Earth, by Jeffrey Burton Russell (MPL Book Trailer 655)

Описание: Mooresville Public Library (Mooresville, Indiana) presents a book trailer featuring the classic historical analysis, "Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians," by Jeffrey Burton Russell, in which the author demonstrates that it's erroneous to think educated people during the Middle Ages thought the world was flat. This was a 19th century myth created by a popular American fiction writer and a French archaeologist.