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“They thought the earth was flat”
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this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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Also Columbus didn't set out to prove the earth is a sphere but to prove it is much smaller than thought. He was wrong, the Americas saved his ass.
I thought it was just that he thought it was smaller than it is and he wanted to find another route to India by going west instead of east. Not that he wanted to prove that the earth is smaller.
Eh, that's pretty much the same thing