{"id":27530,"date":"2023-08-11T08:32:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T06:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=238772"},"modified":"2023-08-11T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T07:11:38","slug":"did-our-ancestors-really-think-the-world-was-flat","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/did-our-ancestors-really-think-the-world-was-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Did our ancestors really think the world was flat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> From Chinese cosmology to Victorian flat-earthers, James Hannam discusses humanity\u2019s quest to determine the shape of our planet <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Jon Bauckham\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 11 August 2023 at 06:32 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>When did people first figure out the world wasn\u2019t flat? Well, according to author James Hannam, it was much earlier than you might imagine. In today\u2019s episode, James tells Jon Bauckham more about humanity\u2019s quest to determine the shape of our planet \u2013 from ancient thinking and Chinese cosmology to Victorian flat-earthers.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-238772-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/08\/didourancestorsreallythinktheworldisflat-232334f.mp3?_=1\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/08\/didourancestorsreallythinktheworldisflat-232334f.mp3\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/08\/didourancestorsreallythinktheworldisflat-232334f.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Hannam is the author of <em>The Globe: How the Earth Became Round<\/em> (Reaktion, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-globe-how-the-earth-became-round-james-hannam\/7416094\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Globe-How-Earth-Became-Round\/dp\/1789147581?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0\" rel=\"sponsored noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-globe%2Fjames-hannam%2F9781789147582\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> From Chinese cosmology to Victorian flat-earthers, James Hannam discusses humanity\u2019s quest to determine the shape of our planet <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27531,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/did-our-ancestors-really-think-the-world-was-flat.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/did-our-ancestors-really-think-the-world-was-flat-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/did-our-ancestors-really-think-the-world-was-flat-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/did-our-ancestors-really-think-the-world-was-flat.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/did-our-ancestors-really-think-the-world-was-flat.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/did-our-ancestors-really-think-the-world-was-flat.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/did-our-ancestors-really-think-the-world-was-flat.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"From Chinese cosmology to Victorian flat-earthers, James Hannam discusses humanity\u2019s quest to determine the shape of our planet","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/27530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}