tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post7065033386631933162..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: The Devil At The Centre of The World - by Katherine LangrishMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-66592028607247113242012-09-06T19:10:37.301+01:002012-09-06T19:10:37.301+01:00What a wonderful post, Kath! Loved it. I do like L...What a wonderful post, Kath! Loved it. I do like Lorenzo's beautiful: 'There's not the smallest orb that thou beholdest/But in his motion like an Angel sings', it is one of my favourite bits of poetry. <br /><br />I like the Terry Pratchett book, however, where the priests of Om insist that the world is round, whereas the sailors, etc, know it is a disc carried on the back of a giant turtle, but daren't argue in case they are charged with blasphemy..Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-8601432386636805732012-09-05T13:17:42.117+01:002012-09-05T13:17:42.117+01:00Lovely post, Kath! I believe in Elfland, naturally...Lovely post, Kath! I believe in Elfland, naturally... is there an Elfland Society, does anyone know?Katherine Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-41629461011415441902012-09-04T19:47:23.759+01:002012-09-04T19:47:23.759+01:00Beautiful article, in prose, poetry, argument and ...Beautiful article, in prose, poetry, argument and illustrations. So glad you included those amazing lines in Dante where he and Virgil pass through the centre of, yes, the round earth. Speaking of C S Lewis, he refers to the fear of sailing over the edge of the world in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, when that possibility comes up, and Edmund remarks that there's no reason why other worlds should obey the same rule as ours. I really enjoyed this, thank you.griselda heppelhttp://www.antesinferno.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-27171075106301269102012-09-04T17:45:24.318+01:002012-09-04T17:45:24.318+01:00It would be a gorgeous one to colour in, wouldn...It would be a gorgeous one to colour in, wouldn't it! maybe we should issue a History Girls colouring book! <br />Stroppy Author - this is exactly why I wanted to write this post - it's amazing that so many educated modern people still think our ancestors held this primitive belief. Is is that we want to feel superior? Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-17217081651945709192012-09-04T17:12:44.040+01:002012-09-04T17:12:44.040+01:00Thank you - again, Katherine. I love that top illu...Thank you - again, Katherine. I love that top illustration in particular & I admit to a desire to colour it in - but I digress.<br />I so appreciate your stance on our predecessors - they were not stupid!K.M.Lockwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07540392557430776265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-1322349841503737392012-09-04T15:52:55.026+01:002012-09-04T15:52:55.026+01:00Indeed medieval people did not believe the Earth t...Indeed medieval people did not believe the Earth to be flat. But when, less than ten years ago, I took Big Bint to look around her future secondary school, a lesson was in progress in which the history teacher was telling the poor year 7s precisely that, so it's no wonder people still think it was a commonly held belief. Just like they still teach Newton's gravity rather than Einstein's gravity in schools...<br /><br />(Newton's universal law of gravitation did not state that everything falls towards the centre of the Earth, which was well known, but that all objects with mass exert gravitational force on all other objects with mass at a magnitude relative to the product of their masses and the inverse square of the distance between them. His work on spherical bodies was to say that gravity operates as if all the mass were concentrated at the centre.)Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-77358379276665646482012-09-04T09:18:46.429+01:002012-09-04T09:18:46.429+01:00I loved this too! Thank you, Kath - absolutely fas...I loved this too! Thank you, Kath - absolutely fascinating. And wonderful illustrations.H.M. Castorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08716936870601385683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-17450937639176479452012-09-04T08:43:03.349+01:002012-09-04T08:43:03.349+01:00Wonderful post, Kath! Most interesting in every wa...Wonderful post, Kath! Most interesting in every way.adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.com