Talk:The Discoverers

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Article is about the book - not the author

As a newcomer to this article, my idea is that it seems to be too much about the author and not enough about the book itself. Am happy to go through the article doing meatball surgery, but would first like to get feedback from other, regular, editors. Regards, --Technopat (talk) 23:29, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Flat Earth theory

I've heard that in this book Boorstin charges "orthodox Christendom" with suppressing knowledge of the Spherical Earth. [1] I'm looking at a website that uses this as an example of an error and I'm wondering whether it's in accordance with NPOV to describe any of this.

If so, do we say (1) that Boorstin was wrong, and that others have pointed out his error or (2) that Boorstin presented the idea as fact, and that other historians disagree with him? --Uncle Ed (talk) 23:20, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Furthermore, the cover of the book shows a man leaving the flat earth and discovering the real 3-d world, an obvious copy of Flammarion's fake wood cut. This brings into question the extent to which Boorstin was using disinformation to make a false point about Christianity having been "anti-scientific".

I want to avoid making charges against anyone, because that wouldn't be neutral. But can I say that his POV is contradicted by the mainstream, or what? --Uncle Ed (talk) 17:06, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Read the book. I had a professor of history at Texas A&M describe this book as "A college degree between two covers." I read it years ago and was deeply impressed and it colors my worldview to this day, so I would recommend reading the book itself and then drawing your own conclusions. Keep an open mind though, because it very well could be that incremental change brought on by individuals of genius has a far larger impact on progress than the social movements that populate our age. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CCE1:9890:E937:DD7:423C:5C40 (talk) 01:02, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Vandalism 2017-Nov-16

Please revert the changes made by the user at IP 70.127.56.232

190.83.158.72 (talk) 14:06, 20 November 2017 (UTC)