Yesterday I found out that the commonly held notion that people in the Middle Ages believed the Earth to be flat is actually wrong. The idea of a round Earth was generally widely accepted by the time of the Ancient Greeks, and never faded.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.asa3.org/ASA/topics/history/1997Russell.html
and for Scandinavian readers:
http://www.faktoider.nu/platt.html
:)
/Gustaf O