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To: OldArmy52
"And the world is flat."

The amusing thing about all the 'flat world' comments is that the idea of belief in a flat world was born in 1833!

there is not a shred of evidence that any of the ancients ever held such a belief. (which is logical, since anyone that has ever stood on a mountain, or looked over the ocean can plainly see that we live on a sphere)

26 posted on 03/06/2010 4:34:26 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Democracy, the vilest form of government, pits the greed of an angry mob vs. the rights of a man)
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To: editor-surveyor

there is not a shred of evidence that any of the ancients ever held such a belief”

But there is plenty of evidence that they believed that the world is a sphere, and they had a good approximation of the circumference.


33 posted on 03/06/2010 4:39:59 PM PST by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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