Quote (card_sultan @ Aug 12 2017 12:21am)
The maps were from the previous page. You say your not talking about all people but in the next sentence you claim "Europe and middle eastern society in general" which is just disproving yourself. You didn't address my point about Copernicus getting the circumference of the earth wrong, you didn't address my point of why it took nearly 2000 years for "people" to discover the world we know - yet claim that everyone knew it, which totally doesn't make any sense. One of the reason Christopher Columbus left Spain is because the Queen thought his idea that the earth being a ball was silly, so she was not a believer. And the only reason the Vatican agreed is because it fit into their plan and knew there was more land. The reason the pilgrims actually left England was because England had adopted the Copernican Model and i hardly think the difference between a geocentric ball earth and a heliocentric ball earth would be enough to cry Religious foul and make someone drop their life and sail over the ocean.
Burden of proof is on you, you're the one making the claim and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Please post proof you read everything every goverment ever said in the last 5000 years.
Inb4 dodge + troll fail tactic
I stated the Chinese believed earth was flat till 1700's, clearly that is not everyone.
Europeans not discovering North America for 1300 years from the time a globe earth was first proposed was not addressed because it is not relevant at all. The earth can be globe with or without that continent, and irregardless of who knew about it or lived there. Obviously exploration advances with time.
Just lol, you've been duped by some historical revisionists from the 19th century who needed to make the church more incompatible with sciencetific advancement so they perpetuated the myth that the church has believed and supported flat earth for hundreds of years and opposed Columbus because he was the one who proved it was a globe. The church at the time opposed the ideas of Copernicus that the globe earth rotated the sun instead of of earth being stationary and the centre of the universe. The shape of the earth had nothing whatsoever to do with any of the arguement at that point in time in Europe.