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The flat earth notion
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2003 Nov 2, 21:38 -0400
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2003 Nov 2, 21:38 -0400
The more I dig into the history of navigation, the more puzzled I am about the origin of the notion that the earth was (is) flat. Did anybody prior to 1800 really believe that? Is the notion a modern invention? Clearly scholars back to at least the Greeks in 600 BC believed that the earth was spherical. Jim Thompson jim2@jimthompson.net www.jimthompson.net Outgoing mail scanned by Norton Antivirus -----------------------------------------
