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Jul 21, 2019 · The idea that medieval people thought the earth was flat appears to have spread in the late nineteenth century as a stick with which to beat the medieval Christian church, which is often blamed for restricting intellectual growth in the period. The myth also taps into people’s ideas of “progress” and of the medieval era as a period of ...
Oct 26, 2012 · That context makes today’s flat earthers even more unusual: Not even the Ancient Greeks thought the Earth was flat. The question arises: are these people serious? Well, according to Life’s ...
Jan 29, 2016 · Indeed, as the University of California historian Jeffrey Burton Russell has argued, very few educated people in the West after the 3rd century BCE thought that the world was flat. This goes ...
Nov 21, 2013 · By Danièle Cybulskie. It seems there’s one fact about the Middle Ages that always seems to astound people: medieval people did not actually think the world was flat. I remember being startled myself when this bombshell was dropped on me. If they didn’t think it was flat, what did they think? And why are we all convinced otherwise?
Mar 14, 2013 · Very few people throughout the Middle Ages believed that the world was flat. Thinkers on both sides of the question were Catholics, and for them, the shape of the earth did not equate with progressive or traditionalist views.
Jan 24, 2020 · Very few people throughout the Middle Ages believed that the world was flat. Thinkers on both sides of the question were Christians (Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox), and for them, the shape of the earth did not equate with progressive or traditionalist views.
Jan 29, 2016 · Back in the 1970s and ‘80s, a man named Charles Kenneth Johnson became a minor celebrity for his refusal to believe the Earth is round, Cheryl Eddy writes for iO9. Johnson’s good friend Samuel ...
