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Incidentally, not a few. A great many cultures, civilizations and groups knew the Earth was round. It was actually more on the recent scale (within hundreds of years) that religious suppression ensured it was not common knowledge as they sought to emphasize the ignorant view.
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Washington Irving didn't help matters any, with his story that everyone but C. Columbus thought that the world was flat. Popular literature has a dismaying tendency to trump actual learning.
Fred
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"For shame, gentlemen, pack your evidence a little better against another time."
-- John Dryden, "The Vindication of The Duke of Guise" 1684
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