Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes: Table of Contents (Teaser)

Table of Contents 

Preface

Introduction

Part One – Deleting Theology 

Chapter 1 - A Da Vinci Code Is Found

Duhem’s Dilemma
The Genius and the Light
The Labor of Centuries
The Duhem Scandal

Chapter 2 – Paper and Bone

A Forgetfulness, Which Appears as Memory

Chapter 3 – A Quiet Revolution

The Fall of Positivism
Back to Newton and Descartes
The Quiet Revolution

Part Two – The Lords of Time

Chapter 4 – What the Bulldog Saw

Apes and Angels
Back to the Bulldog
The X-Club, Scientific Naturalism, and the (Re-)Writing of History

Chapter 5 – The Armchair at the Center of the World

The Board is Set, the Pieces Are Moving
American Bacon
The New Inventions of Religion
Aftermaths: At The Origins of the History of Science

Chapter 6 – Warsongs

Bonaparte and the Pope Who Became Infallible
Dueling Histories
The Fire Spreads: Edward L. Youmans

Part Three – Legendarium

Chapter 7 – Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes

Maps and Monsters
The Myth of the Myth
The Recent Inventions of the Flat Earth

Chapter 8 – A Thousand Years Lay Dreaming, Or Half Awake

Swerving into the Dark Ages
Inventing the Dark Ages: Gibbon and the Fall of Rome
The Burning of the Library at Alexandria
The Murder of Hypatia

Chapter 9 – Against the Dark, A Tall White Fountain Played

The New Middle Ages
Pictures of the Dark
An Age of Too Much Science?

Chapter 10 – Closed Worlds and Infinite Universes

Dust in an Infinite Sky
Unread Books and Meridian Lines
Scripture and Science
Conclusions: The Condemnation of Galileo

Chapter 11 – American Memory

How to Build a War
Trials and Tribulations
Creating Creationism
Conclusion: Re-Creating Scopes and Beyond

Conclusion