HUMAN-111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Farnese Atlas, Black Death
12 Oct 2020
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Extent to which his voyage has become a deeply ingrained myth in some way o. Some things were blown out of proportion o some thing did really change: flat earth theory they knew the earth was round since the ancient greeks. So this is a myth that he discovered this. Medieval people did not believe that the earth was flat teachers are taught to teach this to children o it is to teach children to always test theories that are given to you. Ptolemy"s geography, which was standard through the middle ages, was based on the assumption that the earth was round. As orb or a sphere was held by great lords and priests were meant to say that they held authority over the world. Irving write a biography of christopher columbus. He created a proto-american hero, someone who encapsulated. Africa well drawn at top, don"t know what is going on in the bottom.
