Zaccaria Lilio and the shape of the earth: A brief response to Allegro’s “Flat earth science”
This is a response to James J. Allegro’s article “The bottom of the universe: Flat earth science in the Age of Encounter,” published in Volume 55, Number 1, of this journal. Against the solid consensus of modern scholars, Allegro contends that the decades around 1500 saw a resurgence of popular and...
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SAGE Publications
2017
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| description | This is a response to James J. Allegro’s article “The bottom of the universe: Flat earth science in the Age of Encounter,” published in Volume 55, Number 1, of this journal. Against the solid consensus of modern scholars, Allegro contends that the decades around 1500 saw a resurgence of popular and learned doubts about the existence of a southern hemisphere and the concept of a spherical earth more generally. It can be shown that a substantial part of Allegro’s argument rests on an erroneous reading of his main textual witness, Zaccaria Lilio’s <i>Contra Antipodes</i> (1496), and on a failure adequately to place this source in the context of the cosmographical debate of the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Once this context is taken into account, the notion that Lilio was a flat-earther falls flat. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:16124e4c-f194-4c36-809f-d13a7939308a2022-03-26T10:29:05ZZaccaria Lilio and the shape of the earth: A brief response to Allegro’s “Flat earth science”Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:16124e4c-f194-4c36-809f-d13a7939308aSymplectic Elements at OxfordSAGE Publications2017Nothaft, CThis is a response to James J. Allegro’s article “The bottom of the universe: Flat earth science in the Age of Encounter,” published in Volume 55, Number 1, of this journal. Against the solid consensus of modern scholars, Allegro contends that the decades around 1500 saw a resurgence of popular and learned doubts about the existence of a southern hemisphere and the concept of a spherical earth more generally. It can be shown that a substantial part of Allegro’s argument rests on an erroneous reading of his main textual witness, Zaccaria Lilio’s <i>Contra Antipodes</i> (1496), and on a failure adequately to place this source in the context of the cosmographical debate of the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Once this context is taken into account, the notion that Lilio was a flat-earther falls flat. |
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