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Default Cold sun rising

On Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 7:18:26 PM UTC-5, Ed Huntress wrote:

The ancient Greeks knew the earth was roughly spherical, back to at
least the 4th century BC. That's what *we* learned.


Ed Huntress



But the consensus in the 4th century BC was that the earth was flat. It was only a few that believed the earth was spherical. If you learned that most greeks in the 4th century believed the earth was a sphere, then you had a poor school.

Dan
 
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