The Current Evolution of Ancient Religious Institutions

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The Catholic Church never taught that the world was flat.

   Before Columbus, the idea in Europe was that you would fall from the edge of the world if you went too far on the map.
   Yet by observing the movements of ships on the Horizon (When they come you see the prow, than the top of the ship, than the whole ship) some people started to argue that they could get to India (the richest nation on earth at the time) through the Atlantic Ocean.
   In “The Conquest of paradise” (1992) you can see Columbus (Gerard Depardieu) having this discussion with the clergy

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Foxaer: I think it was Aristotle. In his theory everything falls from top to bottom. So the earth is seen as a disc and everything is revolving around the earth in a very stable geocentric model.

 
Scientists of the enlightenment were seen as heretics, although this theory of Aristotle belonged to a “Pagan” philosopher of ancient times.

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