La terre plat, généalogie d'une idée fausse. Grande Grèce Un monde végétal

Un monde végétal

Aelius Aristides

the immaculate beak of a glossy black moorhen

and also to become aware of the fragility of this heritage

La terre plat, généalogie d'une idée fausse. Grande Grèce Un monde végétalIt remains a commonplace to think that the Middle Ages believed in a flat Earth, out of scientific ignorance as much as religious coercion. It would have been necessary to wait for the navigators, Columbus or Magellan, or even modern astronomers, Copernicus or Galileo, for the darkness to dissipate and for the Earth to finally become round. However, from Greek Antiquity to the European Renaissance, the idea that the Earth was flat was practically