The sources say that most ancient societies believed in a flat earth, but the sources are biased

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The sources say that most ancient societies believed in a flat earth, but the sources are biased

Post by ylevental » Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:46 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... _societies

The problem with all these "sources" is that historians back then took drawings of a flat earth by ancient civilizations as literal to the extreme. I don't think that most thinkers believed in a flat earth even back then, because of how ships and caravans look when they travel beyond the horizon. The bottom vanishes, but you can still see the tops.

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Re: The sources say that most ancient societies believed in a flat earth, but the sources are biased

Post by ylevental » Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:54 pm

Additionally, "earth" could have meant land back then. Not that they thought that all of Earth was flat, since the ancients wouldn't have been aware of the entire world's expanse.

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