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Can you give a source for your claim? Further from another Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Myth_of_the_flat_Earth&oldid=104872771

Can you give a source for your claim? Further from another Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Myth_of_the_flat_Earth&oldid=1048727712 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Myth_of_the_flat_...): According to Stephen Jay Gould, "there never was a period of 'flat Earth darkness' among scholars, regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now. Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted the Earth's roundness as an established fact of cosmology."[5] Historians of science David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers point out that "there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference".[6]

mrkramer 5y ago
>Can you give a source for your claim? That's what we were taught in school in Europe. I don't know source/s for Church supporting Flat Earth but I know that Medieval Church was supporting Geocentric model and opposing Heliocentric astronomical model. Galileo Galilei was victim of this dogma: "Galileo's championing of Copernican heliocentrism (Earth rotating daily and revolving around the sun) was met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was foolish, absurd, and heretical since it contradicted Holy Scripture." "Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated both the Pope and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point. He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest."[0] I would need to further research or ask some historians what was Medieval's Church formal(official) and informal(unofficial) opinion on Flat Earth vs Spherical Earth. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
- heinrich5991 5y ago
  I was also taught this thing (flat earth in the medieval ages) in school (in Germany). I was also taught that Christopher Columbus believed the Earth was flat and we even played Christopher Columbus's trying to convince others of a spherical earth. But it just seems that it is wrong. That apparently happens in school. Yes, in the medieval ages, heliocentrism was questioned.

mrkramer 5y ago

>Can you give a source for your claim? That's what we were taught in school in Europe. I don't know source/s for Church supporting Flat Earth but I know that Medieval Church was supporting Geocentric model and opposing Heliocentric astronomical model. Galileo Galilei was victim of this dogma: "Galileo's championing of Copernican heliocentrism (Earth rotating daily and revolving around the sun) was met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was foolish, absurd, and heretical since it contradicted Holy Scripture." "Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated both the Pope and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point. He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest."[0] I would need to further research or ask some historians what was Medieval's Church formal(official) and informal(unofficial) opinion on Flat Earth vs Spherical Earth. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

heinrich5991 5y ago
I was also taught this thing (flat earth in the medieval ages) in school (in Germany). I was also taught that Christopher Columbus believed the Earth was flat and we even played Christopher Columbus's trying to convince others of a spherical earth. But it just seems that it is wrong. That apparently happens in school. Yes, in the medieval ages, heliocentrism was questioned.