Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power by Sylvia Sumira

Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power

Sylvia Sumira

224 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history reference informative medium-paced
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The concept of the earth as a sphere has been around for centuries, emerging around the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century BC, and eventually becoming dominant as other thinkers of the ancient world, including Plato and Aristotle, accepted th...

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