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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (9742)	3/26/2001 5:58:05 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Neocon, thanks, my bad... I'd thought that the 'theory of the spheres' had the shells of the seven heavens moving around a disc-shaped, slightly curved but basically flat world (hell being below): hence also the term 'planes of existence', and so forth. Thinking about it, even the bizarre orreries based on Ptolemaic epicycles may have had the Earth at the centre, but they all showed the Earth as a globe - so why were so many people convinced that Columbus was going to sail off the edge...? Surely those were around before 1500, or were they just between Columbus and Kepler/Newton?