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Originally Posted by Shi'ark
That's a myth started by the guy who wrote Sleepy hollow in his Columbus bio. Christians have always seen the earth as round.
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MOST cultures in the past have seen the Earth as round - anyone with astronomy has. Think about it - one of the marks of astronomical and cultural achievment is predicting eclipses.... the first time you predict a lunar exclipse (Earth moving between sun and moon), you can see the Earth's shadow on the surface of the moon if it's full and.... wait a minute.... that shadow is..... spherical.....
Not even 'most' Europeans thought of it as flat; Aristotle said it was because he logically figured that all things here were flat and straight and all things in the cosmos were spherical and curved and such. This is the guy that also said that motion is in straight lines on the earth: the tradition was that if it could be shown logically, it didn't matter that real world evidence said you were wrong, because by God you'd used
logic. That was a niche school in ancient Greece, just so happens that this Aristotle genius was a part of it.
Europeans saw eclipses as well as anyone else....