After all, it Looked flat and you had to interpret finicky observations to show it was curved. It was this guy 'Parallax' on his own that decided (for physics reasons) to reject a round earth and he worked hard at proving this and it was rather hard to prove the earth was round. It was never a Church dogma that started off the Flat earthism cult. Pretty much, the later Greco -Roman world knew that the world was round (Eratosthenes calculated the circumference pretty well) though a lot still thought in terms of a sky dome over a flat circle and that persisted for a long while, but I recall that it was Aquinas who accepted a round earth but insisted that nobody could live on the underneath as they'd drop off.īut point is that, while the church was struggling with the Solarcentric system, they accepted that the earth was round. The story of Flat Earthism is interesting, not least because it is was not a religious Dogma. Rather likem scientology or, come to think of it, many other religions. That came from a cult started by one single person. That said it was not since the 17th c a Church dogma that the earth was flat and Religion is not to be blamed for flat earthism. I found that the 'circle of the earth' refers to a flat circle (chwug) as if inscribed by a compass (meshuggah, or some similar word) and if a sphere was means 'dur' (a ball) would have been used. It does and knowing the babylonian cosmos puts it all into place - a circular flat earth, ringed with mountains (the sluices of the deep inset) with waters above and below.
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