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	The Flat Earth Myth by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
		Irving’s semi-historical, semi-fictional writing often blurred the distinction between fact and fiction, a distinction that was likewise unclear to his readers.
		As for Letronne, he received much of his academic training from men who propagated the standard Enlightenment canard about the ignorance of the Middle Ages.
		Although he conceded that a few theologians knew the earth was a sphere, Letronne put forth the idea that the vast bulk were foolish believers in a flat earth.
	www.lewrockwell.com /woods/woods46.html (1561 words)

	Flat Wrong: Hartwig, Mark.
		Russell traces its origins to two sources: Washington Irving's horribly inaccurate biography of Christopher Columbus, published in 1828, and a scholarly article by French scholar Antoine-Jean Letronne, published in 1834.
		Despite Irving's popularity and Letronne's prestige, their mistakes might have had little effect were it not for Darwin's theory of evolution.
		Following the publication of his Origin of Species in 1859, the flat-earth myth became orthodoxy when Darwin's defenders began using it to attack their Christian critics.
	www.arn.org /docs/hartwig/mh_flat.htm (503 words)

	AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED,
		Octavo lettersheet folded and addressed on obverse to 'Mme Biot au College de France' on a matter of retaining an architect to repair Mme.
		Letronne was a savant known for his erudition in the geography and paleography of the ancient world.
		He collaborated with Jean-Baptiste BIOT on 'Memoire sur le Zodiaque circulaire de Denderah,' annotated ROLLIN's complete works and published several tomes on Egyptology.
	www.popula.com /items_fp/item_description.cfm?item_fp_ID=1869352 (192 words)

	snarkout: flatland
		But the joke begins earlier; the idea that the educated citizens of 1492, whose world contained not only the printing press but also the rifle, the slotted screw, and reasonably accurate clocks, didn't know the world was round is simply slander.
		It was first invented by a Frenchmen, Antoine-Jean Letronne, as part of his attack on the religion in the nineteenth century.
		Stripped of the combative trappings, however, the role of scientific radical was one with real myth-making potential.
	www.snarkout.org /archives/2005/01/28 (839 words)

	FS: Letters of Letronne, Mentelle & Bory St-Vincent
		Fine Octavo lettersheet folded and addressed on obverse to 'Mme Biot au Collège de France' on a matter of retaining an architect to repair Mme.
		He collaborated with Jean-Baptiste BIOT on 'Mémoire sur le Zodiaque circulaire de Denderah,' annotated ROLLIN's complete works and published several tomes on Egyptology.
		In the cartographic world, Letronne is implicated with Washington Irving in having helped to popularize the historically incorrect notion that medieval savants held the world to be flat -- a now wide-spread belief of our time but that has no scholarly foundation.
	www.raremaps.com /maptrade/july03/msg00021.html (373 words)

	portland imc - 2004.04.10 - Myth of Earth is Flat ... modified history !!!
		One was Antoine-Jean Letronne (1787-1848), an academic of strong antireligious prejudices who had studied both geography and patristics and who cleverly drew upon both to misrepresent the church fathers and their medieval successors as believing in a flat earth, in his On the Cosmographical Ideas of the Church Fathers (1834).
		But now, why did the false accounts of Letronne and Irving become melded and then, as early as the 1860s, begin to be served up in schools and in schoolbooks as the solemn truth?
		The answer is that the falsehood about the spherical earth became a colorful and unforgettable part of a larger falsehood: the falsehood of the eternal war between science (good) and religion (bad) throughout Western history.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/04/285533.shtml (1390 words)

	Early Studies on Mesopotamian Astral Sciences
		Letronne, Antoine-Jean, “De la division de l’Équateur et du Jour chez les Chaldéens, d’apres Achilles Tatius; et de celle du Cercle en 360 degrés”, Journal des Savans (1817), 738-748 [Gallica link] – reprinted in: E. Fagnan (ed.), Oeuvres choisies de A.-J. Letronne: Deuxième série.
		Lajard, Jean Baptiste Félix, “Fragments d’un mémoire sur le système théogonique et cosmogonique des Assyriens ou des chaldéens d’Assyrie”, Nouveau journal asiatique, ou recueil de mémoires, d’extraits et de notices relatifs à l’histoire, à la philosophie, aux langues et à la littérature des peuples orientaux, 14 (1834), 114-143 [Gallica link].
		Letronne, Antoine-Jean, “Sur l’origine du zodiaque Grec, et sur plusieurs points de l’uranographie et de la chronologie des Chaldéens”, Journal des Savans (1839), 480-495 [Gallica link], 527-539 [Gallica link], 577-592 [Gallica link] and 651-668 [Gallica link] – reprinted in: E. Fagnan (ed.), Oeuvres choisies de A.-J. Letronne: Deuxième série.
	www.phys.uu.nl /~vgent/babylon/babybibl_antiquarian.htm (1012 words)

	The Scandalous Flat Earth Myth
		It was considered very important for medieval students to learn geography, where it was part of their studies in astronomy and geometry.
		It is also relevant to note that the kings of the Early Middle Ages held a royal orb.
		In academic circles, the French scholar Antoine-Jean Letronne is identified as winning over several historians following an article he published in 1834.
	www.biblicalcreation.org.uk /educational_issues/bcs105.html (1763 words)

	Geography Unbound: French Geographical Science from Cassini to Humboldt by J.H. Galloway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Among the innovators Godlewska singles out for analysis are Chabrol de Volvic, who was a long-term prefect of Paris, Adrien Balbi, the prolific Jean-Antoine Letronne, and von Humboldt, who rates an entire chapter.
		Yet, Godlewska finds the work of the innovators wanting, arguing that they had influence only on the margins of the discipline and failed to restore it to academic prominence.
		The fault in Letronne's historical geography seems to lie in his choice of topic - the classical world - and not in his method.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/701/geography52.html (739 words)

	Focus on Social Issues - Flat Wrong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Irving, on the one hand, apparently wanted a dramatic image that would grip his readers, so he cast Columbus as the bold mariner who argued courageously for truth and common sense before a council of inquisitors and hooded theologians.
		As Russell points out, "If God or good luck had not put America--the West Indies--in the way to catch him, Columbus and his crews might indeed have perished, not from falling off the earth but from starvation and thirst."
		Letronne, on the other hand, was motivated by an anti-religious bias and had to use some shabby moves to make his case.
	www.family.org /cforum/fosi/origins/essays/a0026684.cfm (474 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Stewart Museum Globe Symposium and Book
		An interesting section, relating to the use of globes to show the earth as being round, examines the notion that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat.
		According to van der Krogt, this was actually a myth popularized in the 19th century by Washington Irving (1783-1859) in his 1828 biography on Christopher Columbus, and by French historical geographer Antoine-Jean Letronne (1787-1848).
		Robert Derome, art historian at the Université du Quebec à Montreal, contributed an introductory section entitled "An Art Historian's Approach to Globes." In this novel section, Derome categorizes and describes the stands of the various globes in the collection, an often overlooked subject.
	www.georgeglazer.com /newyork/sphaerae.html (1025 words)

	An Open Letter to John Dominic Crossan
		Manchester: During the long medieval night, Hellenic and Egyptian learning was preserved by Muslim scholars in the Middle East, where it was discovered by early Renaissance humanists.
		Such wrongheaded thinking started with Antoine-Jean Letronne, an academic with strong anti-religious prejudices, a member of the Institut de France, the French Academy.
		In his 1834 work, On the Cosmographical Ideas of the Church Fathers, he clearly misrepresented the church fathers and their medieval successors as believing in a flat earth.
	www.shroudforum.com /dearjohn/John-Dominic-Crossan-p07.htm (2613 words)

	Pointless Asteroid Scare
		Paine's mention of Vergil indicates that he was drawing upon an earlier source: "Vigilius [sic] was condemned to be burned for asserting the antipodes, or in other words that the earth was a globe:' Vergil, by the way, was not burned, condemned, or even formally censured.
		What happened to the Flat Error after 1794, when Paine's book was published, is fairly clear, it was mentioned by a few writers and then was popularized in France by Antoine-Jean Letronne and in the English speaking world by Washington Irving.
		Irving was the author of the beloved Headless Horseman and of a number of fraudulent and heavily fictionalized histories of New York City, George Washington, and Christopher Columbus.
	www.lawrencehallofscience.org /pass/passv10/flat-earth.html (2619 words)

	The Earth Isn’t Flat
		The idea was established, almost contemporaneously, by a Frenchman and an American, between whom I have not been able to establish a connection, though they were both in Paris at the same time.
		One was Antoine-Jean Letronne (1787-1848), an academic of strong antireligious prejudices who had studied both geography and patristics and who cleverly drew upon both to misrepresent the Church fathers and their medieval successors as believing in a flat Earth, in his On the Cosmographical Ideas of the Church Fathers (1834).
		But now, why did the false accounts of Letronne and Irving become melded and then, as early as the 1860s, begin to be served up in schools and in schoolbooks as the solemn truth?
	www.metrovoice.net /2005/1005_stlweb/1005_articles/earth_isnt_flat.html (1178 words)

	Newton and Historical Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A number of scholars of the time wrote heatedly for and against his Defense de la chronologie fondée sur les monuments, centre de système chronologique de Newton (Paris, 1758).
		In 1816, Jean-Antoine Letronne (1787-1848), after reviewing the entire documentation on the subject in a work crowned by the Academic des Inscriptions, concluded that, given the precision of the Egyptian methods of geodetic surveying, the declaration of Freret “is verified or at least ceases to be too exaggerated.”
		When he died Newton, who in general did not like to publish any of his manuscripts and published them only if put under pressure by his friends, was spontaneously preparing for publication The Chronology of the Ancient Kingdoms Amended.
	www.interpres.cz /worag/cosmol/inheav/science.htm (1974 words)

	Slander - Liberal lies about Christianity - Bruce Walker - MensNewsDaily.com™
		Christians never proposed the absurd proposition that the world was flat. Until the 1830s, no one believed that Christians in medieval Europe had ever thought that the world was flat.
		One French and two American writers - Antoine-Jean Letronne, John Draper, and Andrew Dickson White - schemed to create a non-existent schism between Christianity (which these men loathed) and science (which these men thought our secular salvation). They simply said that medieval Christians believed something that was never believed by these Christians at all.
		Galileo was not tried based upon theological objections to his theory, but rather upon scientific objections to his theory. These scientific objections showed intellectual rigor, not laziness. The Ptolemaic theory, which was accepted not just by Christians but by Moslems and Jews, worked.
	www.mensnewsdaily.com /archive/w/walker/03/walker082703.htm (1635 words)

	THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: CHAPTER 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY
		A number of scholars of the time wrote heatedly for and against his Défense de la chronologie fondée sur les monuments, contre le système chronologique de Newton (Paris, 1758).
		In 1816, Jean-Antoine Letronne (1787-1848), after reviewing the entire Academie des Inscriptions concluded that, given the precision of the Egyptian methods of geodetic surveying the declaration of Fréret 'is verified or at least ceases to be too exaggerated' [12].
		In 1972, I published the figures used by the Egyptians in calculating the length of their country at the beginning of the dynastic period and showed that they calculated the size of the earth according to a polar flattening of 1/ 297.75 [13].
	www.quantavolution.org /vol_15/velikovsky_affair_04.htm (9374 words)

	Slander - Liberal Lies About Christianity - Bruce Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Until the 1830s, no one believed that Christians in medieval Europe had ever thought that the world was flat.
		One French and two American writers - Antoine-Jean Letronne, John Draper, and Andrew Dickson White - schemed to create a non-existent schism between Christianity (which these men loathed) and science (which these men thought our secular salvation).
		They simply said that medieval Christians believed something that was never believed by these Christians at all.
	www.americandaily.com /article/3455 (2433 words)

	Cambridge Conference Correspondence
		Antoine-Jean Letronne assigned the idea to people long dead.
		Letronne assigned the idea to people long dead.
		modernists Irving and Letronne drew on a couple isolated authors like
	abob.libs.uga.edu /bobk/ccc/cc032801.html (5901 words)

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