Did our ancestors really think the world was flat?
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The Anti-Authoritarian View of the Earth
James Hanham's book The Globe How the Earth Became Around is out now published by reaction. He says he was surprised at how defensive a lot of people are about the idea that people in one culture or another believed in traditional cosmologies. "If I had been born in China 500 years ago I would have been convinced that earth that because that's what I would have learned at school"
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