Comment Re:a few points to ponder though (Score 1, Interesting) 588
Even school books had it wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
"The modern misconception that people of the Middle Ages believed that the Earth was flat first entered the popular imagination in the nineteenth century, thanks largely to the publication of Washington Irving's fantasy The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
"The modern misconception that people of the Middle Ages believed that the Earth was flat first entered the popular imagination in the nineteenth century, thanks largely to the publication of Washington Irving's fantasy The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828."
