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[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monty J. Harder
> The majority thought the earth was flat, until
> Columbus and Magellan proved them wrong.  
BS! This is a legend (as in urban legend). Everyone
knew the Earth was round, especially sailors. This
story came about because of a fiction novel written
by I believe Dante. It's total BS to say people
thought the Earth was flat. It was quite obvious,
from any high enough mountain or on the open sea
to see the curvature of the Earth. The problem
sailors had with crossing the Atlantic was that
they figured it was too wide to cross with the 
amount of supplies a ship could carry, and had
there not been an American continent they'd have been
right. The experts that laughed at Columbus did so
because they knew his math was way off, he just
got lucky in finding someone who was dumb enough to
believe his math over the experts at the time.