Inventing the Flat Earth

Inventing the Flat Earth (1991; ISBN 978-0-275-95904-3) is a book by historian Jeffrey Burton Russell debunking the notion that medieval Christians believed the earth was flat.[1]

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  1. "... shows how nineteenth-century anti-Christians invented and spread the falsehood that educated people in the Middle Ages believed that the earth was flat" Russell's summary of his book

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