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Feb 19, 2017 · While it’s often said that human beings believed that the Earth was flat through the Middle Ages until Christopher Columbus set us straight in 1492, a more historically accurate account tells us...
Feb 5, 2018 · The draw of conspiracy. Flat-Earth theories aren't new; in the modern era, they date back to an English writer named Samuel Rowbotham, who came up with a variety of creative interpretations...
Jan 29, 2016 · The idea of the Earth being flat is considered not only wrong, but a model of wrongness, the gold standard of being incorrect about something. This being so, oddly enough, most people described...
Dec 7, 2022 · Flat Earth theories on movement, other science. Claim: Earth isn't curved and doesn't rotate. Our rating: False. The Earth is curved and does rotate, and there are several ways scientists...
Jan 29, 2016 · The recent resurgence of this ancient idea reminds us that flat Earth believers have a long history. Danny Lewis. January 29, 2016. Earth as seen on July 6, 2015 from a distance of one million...
Jan 24, 2018 · If you subscribe to the idea of a flat Earth, then you’d believe that no such thing happened, because the sun rotates in a circle around the sky. Humans have known for thousands of years that the planet is round, yet the belief in a flat Earth refuses to die.
More on Science. The shape of Earth explains seasons, changes in weather, how the sun sets and many more natural phenomena. So, is the Earth flat? There have been disagreements throughout history over whether the planet is flat or spherical. The simple answer is that we live on a bumpy, mountainous, cavernous globe.
