[Peace-discuss] Moon eclipse

[C. G. Estabrook]

Liberal myth-making, I'm afraid (which is not unknown in our own time).

I doubt Magellan ever said any such thing, because educated Europeans
(including church officials) of Magellan's time (and long before) did
not think the earth was flat.

The standard model (as in Dante) was of a round earth at the center of a
series of concentric spheres, each one (except the ninth) holding the
the moon, sun, or one of the planets.

A quite brilliant book on the model of the world from ancient times
through Shakespeare and Milton is C. S. Lewis, THE DISCARDED IMAGE.  I
used to insist my grad students in Renaissance studies read it. --CGE

Ricky Baldwin wrote:
> Hope you saw it, it was a nice one - and early enuf that even 
> Catharine stayed up for it.
> 
> We were reminded of a quote attributed to a famous, and famously 
> deeply flawed, earthbound explorer who despite his many barbarous 
> acts and allegiances was able to look up from the muck and blood of 
> brutal history and come up with this one:
> 
> "The Church says the Earth is flat, but I have seen its shadow on the
> Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church." - F. 
> Magellan (not the first man to circumnavigate the globe)
> 
> Ricky
> 
> --- Karen Medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> 
>>> A total moon eclipse may be seen around 9:01 PM this evening, if 
>>> clouds permit. A
>> fairly rare event, which may foretell nothing.
>> 
>> It may not even foretell a "change"?
>> 
>> -karen medina p.s. It is so nice to have peace and peace-discuss 
>> lists back up again! Yay!