Re: Magellan stories
George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Sun, 14 Dec 1997 14:30:25 -0500Ted Davis wrote:
> Manchester is a prize-winning historian, but not when he writes
> about the "Dark Ages" -- a term that no contemporary scholar of that period
> uses, to the best of my knowledge, because it conveys precisely the kind of
> erroneous notions that Manchester should have known better than to believe.
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> PS. Glenn might be on to something about Magellan and Ptolemy, in terms of
> the technical details and what his voyage was LATER understood to have
> accomplished. I don't know, but he might be. I suggest that he write up
> what he finds and send it to Owen Gingerich, or to the Journal for the
> History of Astronomy, in which case Owen will eventually see it anyway. It
> sounds plausible, at any rate.
A good suggestion. Another obvious question - which I'll pursue
as soon as I get time if no one beats me to it - is, "What sources does
Manchester cite?"
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@imperium.net
http://www.imperium.net/~gmurphy