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Thanks for highlighting the Ellis essay, I hadn’t read it.
This “power of perspective” angle is one I often play up in my Shakespeare classes. When I need to help students realize how differently they see the world than Shakespeare and his contemporaries did (students often want to universalize their experiences), I point out that they have always known what the earth looks like from space — and that there are still many people alive today who did *not* always have that knowledge. That one usually gets them to pause and think for a moment.
The Earth from space tactic is one I hadn’t considered. I’ll have to use that one in class soon!