History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged Podcast

Scott Rank

Nobody in the Middle Ages Thought the Earth Was Flat

January 17, 2018   ●   6 min

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One of the most widespread and pernicious bits of common knowledge about the Middle Ages that is incorrect is the idea that everyone believed the world to be flat. This is ridiculous. Nobody thought that. Anyone who knew about astronomy (which was almost everyone), had been on a boat, or had any sort of learning whatsoever knew this to be false. Then why do make this wrong assumption today?

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