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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (10333)	11/28/2010 9:30:58 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	1 Recommendation Respond to of 69300

"Next question: Do Flat Earthers support the existence of the land of Israel? " Well we could ask them, I suppose. It turns out that the main believers in the Flat Earth Theory are our own generation, in a fashion. Virtually none of the ancients and Medievals thought the Earth was flat. Sailors had always known the Earth's surface was curved simply from watching land and other ships appear over the horizon. Some ancient Greeks even managed to closely estimate the circumference of the Earth, and the belief that the Earth is round was carried forward through Aristotle to Aquinas and so forth. The idea that older generations ever did think that the Earth was flat turns out to be a modern conceit popularized around 1830 and carried forward ever since. Washington Irving is one of the main culprits in popularizing the Flat Earth Myth.