^ Catholic Encyclopaedia: "On this point as on many others, the Bible simply reflects the current cosmological ideas and language of the time" etc.
^ a b c Gould, S.J. (1996). "The late birth of a flat earth". Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History. New York: Crown: 38–52.
^ Quotation from David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers in Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science. Studies in the History of Science and Christianity.
^ Members of the Historical Association (1945). Common errors in history. General Series, G.1. London: P.S. King & Staples for the Historical Association. , pp.4–5. The Historical Association published a second list of 17 other common errors in 1947.
^ David B. Wilson writes about the development of the conflict thesis in "The Historiography of Science and Religion" the second essay in "Gary Ferngren (editor). Science & Religion: A Historical Introduction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8018-7038-0."
^ Irving, Washington (2005). "The Works of Washington Irving". University of Michigan Library.
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/acb0796.0003.001. Retrieved on 2008-08-19.
^ The inaccuracies in Irving's work have been described in detail by Russell, Jeffrey Burton (1991). Inventing the flat Earth. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. pp. 51–56. ISBN 0-275-95904-X.
^ Irving, p.90.
^ Ptolemy, Geography, book 1:14.
^ Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea. A Life of Christopher Columbus (Boston: Little Brown, 1942), vol. 1, p. 65. George E. Nunn, The Geographical Conceptions of Columbus (1924), expanded edition (Milwaukee: American Geographical Society/University of Milwaukee, 1992), pp. 27-30.
^ Nunn, pp. 1-2, 27-30.
^ Morison, pp. 209, 211.
^ Burton Russell, Jeffrey (1997). "The Myth of the Flat Earth" (html). Studies in the History of Science. American Scientific Affiliation.
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/topics/history/1997Russell.html. Retrieved on 2007-07-14.
^ History_of_Science_Collections
^ Jeffrey Russell. Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians. Praeger Paperback; New Ed edition (January 30, 1997). ISBN 027595904X; ISBN 978-0275959043.
^ James. W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong, (Touchstone Books, 1996), p. 56
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