JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH A HISTORY OF THEORIES ABOUT WHAT IS - OR ISN'T - AT ITS CORE

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: September 10, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Throughout history, scientists, philosophers, and religious leaders have fathomed the shape and substance of our world. The Babylonians and Mesopotamians thought the earth was a flat, circular disk surrounded by oceans. The Egyptian monk Cosmas Indicopleustes of Alexandria believed four massive walls held in the seas and supported a firmament of heavenly bodies. Referring to "four angels standing on four corners of the earth," the Bible's Revelation 7:1 suggests a flat earth. The sixth-century Bishop Isidore of Seville claimed the earth was wheel-shaped.

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