Re: Flat Earth

[Paolo Cavallo <ton0621@IPERBOLE.BOLOGNA.IT>]

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From: "John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: Flat Earth


> No. Nooooooooo. No.
...
> Look at the evidence.  You can easily find any number
> of 14th-century maps made in Europe that are utterly
> devoid of any suggestion of non-flatness or periodic
> boundary conditions or anything like that.
...
> I would be very interested to see a 14th-century
> globe, or a map attesting to a non-flat view of the
> world.  Can anybody find such a thing?

But Dante's Commedia, in 1300, was based on a spherical
Earth, and that made no surprise to anyone. Many folk
people loved the Commedia and learned it up to these
days.

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