(March 15, 2012 at 7:01 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Oh Obama...
"The misconception that educated Europeans at the time of Columbus believed in a flat Earth, and that his voyages refuted that belief..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
Right. The key word there is educated. The educated people wouldn't have been the founders of the Flat-Earth Society. They would've been in favor of the voyage. I think that was his point. At the time of Columbus, certainly there were superstitious, ignorant people who were terrified of progress and believed the world was flat.
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