仅靠火照亮的世界

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• Turukawa · 2014 年

  关于这个话题，非常值得一读的一本书是威廉·曼彻斯特（William Manchester）的《只有火照耀的世界》（A World Lit Only by Fire）。他还在书中提出，欧洲之所以能摆脱迷信，是因为麦哲伦刚完成环球航行，教皇就宣布地球是平的，而印刷术使得……

  A fantastic book to read on this topic is "A world lit only by fire" by William Manchester. He also makes the case that Europe emerged from superstition because the Pope declared the world to be flat just as Magellan circumnavigated the globe, and the printing press permitted…

• dc_sux · 2015 年

  随口提一句，我觉得你可能会喜欢威廉·曼彻斯特的《只有火照耀的世界》（A World Lit Only By Fire）。

  Off the cuff, I think you might enjoy William Manchester's "A World Lit Only By Fire."

• Hnrobert42 · 2026 年

  在同类型书里我非常喜欢的另外两本：1. 《只有火照耀的世界》（A World Lit Only by Fire）——威廉·曼彻斯特 2. 《那年夏天：美国1927》（One Summer: America, 1927）——比尔·布莱森

  Two other books in that vein that I really liked: 1. A World Lit Only by Fire — William Manchester 2. One Summer: America, 1927 — Bill Bryson

• hga · 2014 年

  ……留存下来的文献根本没提到过地球的形状：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#Early_Middle_Ages 很难想象这种事会漏提。我还注意到《只有火照耀的世界》的各种书评和反响都骂得极狠，如果他们引证属实，那确实该骂。据我了解，地球是球体这一认知早就被广泛接受了，比如维基百科引用的一篇 1995 年的德国博士论文……

  …survives doesn't touch on the shape of the earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#Early_Middle_Ages Hard to imagine this wouldn't be mentioned. I also noticed the reviews and reception of A World Lit Only by Fire are scathing, and if what they cite is correct, appropriately so. It's my understanding its shape as a sphere was well accepted for a very long time, e.g. Wikipedia, citing a 1995 German PhD dissertation…

• zoobaloo · 2026 年

  > 《只有火照耀的世界》（A World Lit Only by Fire） 高中上 AP 欧洲史课程时我超喜欢这本书。后来在求学阶段重新翻阅，失望地发现它竟然如此缺乏规范的研究和文献引用。曼彻斯特在书里做出了许多大胆的……

  > A World Lit Only by Fire I loved this book in my high school AP Euro class. I revisited it much later in my studies, and was dismayed to realize how lacking in proper research and citation it was. Manchester makes numerous bold…

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