Did our ancestors really think the world was flat?
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The Origins of the Earth
There is this assumption that people in ancient Greece had sussed it all out. They were enlightened. People in the Middle Ages were ignorant. But that's not true, is it? I think there was definitely a period after the fall of the Western Roman Empire where a lot of people in Western Europe were cut off from the learning of ancient Greece. And that needed to be rediscovered.
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