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> Galileo Galilei showed that the earth wasn't flat That the Earth is not flat has been known since ancient times. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_t
by antientropic 9y ago
> Galileo Galilei showed that the earth wasn't flat
That the Earth is not flat has been known since ancient times. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth.
- staticelf 9y agoWell yes, but using the tool he made you could argue that very few would deny it since the truth became so obvious. Even if it was known a long time before that, a lot of people still believed that the earth was flat. With increased technology it was easily disproven.
- antientropic 9y agoDo you have a source for the claim that a lot of people believed the Earth was flat in Galileo's time? (Galileo was born decades after the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation of the world.)
- staticelf 9y agoSorry, it seems you are correct and I was wrong. I mixed up the idea of the geocentric model and thought the flat earth theory was included in that. My bad and thanks for correcting and enlightning me :)