发明地平说
Inventing the flat earth
Jeffrey Burton Russell · 初版 1991 年
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揭示围绕 Columbus 及其时代所流传的那些具欺骗性的虚构神话背后的历史真相。
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Inventing the flat earth
Jeffrey Burton Russell · 初版 1991 年
揭示围绕 Columbus 及其时代所流传的那些具欺骗性的虚构神话背后的历史真相。
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链接里的资料是《捏造地平说》（Inventing The Flat Earth）这本书的浓缩版，当年大学一门课指定读这本书的时候我就挺喜欢的。
The linked source material is a condensed version of the book “Inventing The Flat Earth” which I quite enjoyed when it was assigned in a university course.
……“自八世纪以来，没有哪位值得一提的宇宙学家质疑过地球是球体。”详见 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth ，或者我刚找到的一本书《捏造地平说：哥伦布与现代历史学家》（Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians，http://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Flat-Earth-Columbus-Historia...），讲的就是现代“历史学家”是如何凭空捏造出“古人以为地球是平的”这种说法的……
…'since the eighth century, no cosmographer worthy of note has called into question the sphericity of the Earth.'" See further https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth or the book I just found, Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians (http://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Flat-Earth-Columbus-Historia...), about how modern era "historians" created out of whole cloth the idea that it was thought to be flat…