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.
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.
Send a boat out to sea and the hull disappears from sight before the sails. At the very least they knew it was curved.
Is this a real argument by flat-earthers?
“They got it wrong hundreds of years ago, so I want to get it wrong in the 21st century, too!”
the elites at medieval institutions of learning are not the same as the peasants who can't read.
I'm willing to bet that there's going to be all sorts of shit thrown at the late 20th/early21st century about how we are anti-vaxxers and didn't believe in global warming
The earth is flat because it has no tits.
Then, just like now, the generally accepted view of anything isn't based on the absolute state of human knowledge, but on the state of mass education.
These two panels are happening at the same time due to "meanwhile"
Doesn't Aristotle predate medieval times?
No, they didn’t.
Earth shape has been known at least since the classic Greek times, and probably even before that in non-western civilizations.
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