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The globe : how the Earth became round

Hannam, James2025

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'The Globe' traces humanity's quest to understand the true shape of the Earth. Ancient Greek philosophers identified it as spherical in the fourth century BCE, with this knowledge spreading via Rome, India and Central Asia. The Catholic Church accepted a round Earth well before Columbus, yet Jesuit missionaries only persuaded the Chinese to abandon their square-earth cosmology in the seventeenth century. Challenging traditional views on intellectual history, 'The Globe' argues that recognising Earth's spherical nature was humanity's first major scientific breakthrough.