(November 12, 2019 at 1:13 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(November 12, 2019 at 1:07 pm)TimOneill Wrote: Augustine was quite clear to anyone who understands the natural philosophy of the time and I even gave you two passages in which he makes it absolutely clear he understood the earth is a sphere.
Except those scholars that disagree with that.
Of which you found ... just one. And, as I've explained, Ferrari was a philosopher - not a historian of science. He just didn't understand the passages he refers to and was corrected by actual historians who do.
But if you want to defend the idea that Augustine was a flat earther, I've given you the passages in question. Go right ahead. Let's see if you somehow know better than the leading experts in the field. This should be amusing to watch ...
