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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
Still taught and still taught wrong just like a lot of history. Hell they still teach that Columbus made the trip and was proving the earth was not flat and that he could circle the earth and get to India. Despite that we already knew the earth was not flat for a long time before then.
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This is why if I had children (which I won't) I would NEVER send them to the worthless public schools in the U.S.
The Egyptian-Greek scientist Erastosthenes, working for Alexandria and Aswan, already had measured the circumference and diameter of the world in the third century B.C. Arab scientists had developed a whole discipline of geography and measurement, and in the tenth century A.D., Al Maqdisi described the earth with 360 degrees of longitude and 180 degrees of latitude. The Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai still has an icon that was painted 500 years before Columbus and which shows Jesus ruling over a spherical earth.