How we learned the Earth is round
By: by Patricia Lauber ; illustrated by Megan Lloyd.
Contributors: Lloyd, Megan, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Let's-read-and-find-out science book
Publisher: T.Y. Crowell
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Earth -- Figure -- Juvenile literature.; Earth.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Explains various changes in humanity's beliefs about the shape of the earth, from the flat earth theories of the ancients to the round earth theories which were proven true by the voyages of Columbus and Magellan.