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The Medieval Flat Earth Myth

History for Atheists

CHAPTER

The Myth of the Earth's Round

A Ron declares that this alleged monk was depicting the earth as flat. A few more centuries later, the Christian monk and famous artist, Hieronymus Bosch, was still painting the earth as a flat disc within a transparent crystal ball. So Christianity was still promoting belief in a flat earth 1,800 years after science had already repeatedly shown it as a spear. No wonder this myth is still so widespread. Neil deGrasse Tyson has since been shown detailed evidence that this claim is total nonsense, but has never corrected it.

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