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[–] 47 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

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