re: #393 LudwigVanQuixote

Just because certain ignorant medievals believed that the Earth was flat did not mean that educated people didn’t know better.

Can you name any ignorant medievals who believed the earth was flat? I’ve looked into this in some depth, and haven’t found that it was ever a widely held belief in any era. See my note above; the notion that Columbus “disproved” this notion seems to be pure fiction, invented by Washington Irving.