03-07-2013, 09:17 AM
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Apocalypse
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Limbo
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Originally Posted by ninavain
no one remembers the 1st guy that said the Earth was round...that took balls to stand up with that theory...and if everyone was silenced that said it was round...we would still be living on a flat world...
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That's a load of BS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
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The paradigm of a spherical Earth was developed in Greek astronomy, beginning with Pythagoras (6th century BC), although most Pre-Socratics retained the flat Earth model. Aristotle accepted the spherical shape of the Earth on empirical grounds around 330 BC, and knowledge of the spherical Earth gradually began to spread beyond the Hellenistic world from then on.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
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During the early Middle Ages, virtually all scholars maintained the spherical viewpoint first expressed by the Ancient Greeks. By the 14th century, belief in a flat earth among the educated was nearly nonexistent.
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