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“They thought the earth was flat”
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Certain fanatics also thought the earth was flat from a biblical literalist position, largely derived from Christian scholars of Late Antiquity who considered a spherical earth to be a 'pagan' position. But it's true that no credible scholar in the high medieval period, secular or religious, would've been able to get away with pronouncing a belief in a flat earth.
Even in Late Antiquity and early Middle Ages, spherical Earth was the consensus among Christian scholars, even if the flat Earth idea did made a come back at these times.
Every sailor that ever sailed knew there was a curvature to the earth and the only possible explanation was it was round