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03216cam a2200349 i 4500 |
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on1356450319 |
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OCoLC |
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20250203144342.0 |
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221229t20232023enka b 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1789147581 |
| Qualifying information |
hardback |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781789147582 |
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hardback |
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(OCoLC)1356450319 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
YDX |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
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YDX |
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HRF |
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GO6 |
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UOK |
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MiTN |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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x------ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QB631 |
| Item number |
.H36 2023 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
550 |
| Edition number |
23/eng/20230709 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
550 H1957G 2023 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Hannam, James |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The globe : |
| Remainder of title |
how the Earth became round / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
James Hannam. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Reaktion Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2023. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
©2023 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
376 pages : |
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illustrations (some color) ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm |
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still image |
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sti |
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rdacontent |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-358) and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Introduction: 'The Blue Marble' - Babylon: 'The four quarters of the Earth' -- Egypt: 'The black loam and the red sand' -- Persia: 'Order and deceit' -- Archaic Greece: 'The Shield of Achilles' -- The origins of Greek thought: 'Equally distant from all extremes' -- The Presocratics and Socrates: 'Floating on air' -- Plato: 'Flat or round, whichever is better' -- Aristotle: 'Necessarily spherical' -- Greek debate on the shape of the world: 'Either round or triangular or some other shape' -- Romans on the globe: 'The circle of the world' -- India: 'The mountain at the North Pole' -- The Sassanian Persians: 'Good thoughts, good words, good deeds' -- Early Judaism: 'From the ends of the Earth' -- Christianity: 'All things established by divine command' -- Islam: 'The Earth laid out like a carpet' -- Later Judaism: 'The wise men of the nations have defeated the wise men of Israel' -- Europe in the Early Middle Ages: 'Equally round in all directions' -- High medieval views of the world: 'The Earth has the shape of a globe' -- Columbus and Copernicus: 'New worlds will be found' -- China: 'The heavens are round and the Earth is square' -- China and the West: 'Like the yolk in a hen's egg' -- The globe goes global: 'At the round Earth's imagined corners' -- Today: 'There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world'. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
The Globe tells the story of humanity's quest to discover the shape of the world. Philosophers in ancient Greece deduced the true shape of the Earth in the fourth century BCE; the Romans passed the knowledge to India, and from there it spread to Baghdad and Central Asia. In early medieval Europe, Christians debated the matter but long before the time of Columbus, the Catholic Church had accepted that the Earth is round and not flat. However, it wasn't until the seventeenth century that Jesuit missionaries finally convinced the Chinese that their traditional square-earth cosmology was mistaken. An accessible challenge to long-established beliefs about the history of ideas, The Globe shows how the realization that our planet is a sphere deserves to be considered the first great scientific achievement. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Physical sciences |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Earth (Planet) |
| 9 (RLIN) |
2375 |