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Who are these holy men, of which you speak, that refused to consider Earth round?
by johnnyhillbilly 10y ago
Who are these holy men, of which you speak, that refused to consider Earth round?
- Nzen 10y agoHe or she is probably conflating the Catholic inquisitors who convicted Galileo for a heliocentric heresy and the popular myth that the experts who dissuaded King Ferdinand from supporting Columbus thought the earth flat, rather than too wide to cross with contemporary technology. It's just a rhetorical device intended to diminish the otherwise learned. <edit for wording>