On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:36:59 -0600, Shay <sha### [at] nonenone> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:24:09 -0600, Shay <sha### [at] nonenone> wrote:
>> 
>>> A lot of very smart people believed the Earth was flat.
>> 
>> Are you sure about that?
>
>Not at all, really. AFAIK people used to believe the world was flat. I'm 
>assuming some of those people were very smart. I could be wrong on 
>either end of that.
>

Well the Greeks knew the Earth was round in the 4th Cent BC. The "flat Earth"
fallacy became more common in the 19th century with the Religion Vs Science
debate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_mythology

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Regards
     Stephen

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