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The Globe

Name: The Globe
Brand: Reaktion Books
SKU: 9781836391128
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ISBN: 9781836391128

How the Earth Became Round

Contributor(s): James Hannam Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9781836391128
Subtitle	How the Earth Became Round
Publisher	Reaktion Books
Publication date	October 2025
Language	English
MRP	£11.99 GBP
Page count	384

Now in paperback, 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. Compelling and thought-provoking, the book explores how this discovery reshaped global perspectives across centuries.

The Globe

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James Hannam Author

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