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“They thought the earth was flat” (thelemmy.club)
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[-] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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