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Flat Earth myth
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2015 Mar 17, 11:20 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2015 Mar 17, 11:20 -0700
Peripherally related to navigation, there's a common myth claiming that most people or at least "common people" before the Renaissance and before Columbus thought the Earth was flat. There's a detailed account bashing this legend on quora here. There have been occasional flat earth theorists and flat earth societies through the centuries. Joshua Slocum met with a devotee in South Africa in 1897. But they're rare eccentrics.
Frank Reed
