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For those going to sea, or living on coast lines, itvwas clear the earth was round. For everyone else it didn't really matter either way.
by hef19898 4y ago
For those going to sea, or living on coast lines, itvwas clear the earth was round. For everyone else it didn't really matter either way.
- eesmith 4y agoI don't think it's that simple. Pre-Socratic Greeks, like Xenophanes, lived on the coast and went to sea, but thought the world was flat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophanes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophanes Until 1600s or so, Chinese people thought the world was flat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#East_Asia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#East_Asia , even though many Chinese people lived on the coast and sailed the seas.