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tilthat:

TIL that virtually all Middle Ages scholars believed that the Earth is spherical. The myth that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth is flat appears to date from the 17th century as part of the campaign by Protestants against Catholic teaching.

via reddit.com

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New Flat Earth symbol: cross on top of a pancake.

Flat Earth is out, Holy Hand Grenade Earth is in

Columbus was controversial because he believed the Earth was smaller than it really was. Eratosthenes thousands of years before had calculated the size of the earth fairly accurately and the educated Europeans of that time believed that size. They also believed that the Americas were just ocean. So attempting to reach India from the other side was considered suicide, not because one would fall off the edge, but because you would starve before reaching it.