Calling someone a "flat-earthier" defiantly
isn't a compliment but many people believe
that, in the past, the church taught that
the earth is flat.
Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell put this
myth to rest in his definitive book "Inventing
the Flat Earth." He could only find five obscure
writers in the first fifteen hundred years
of the Christian era, who denied the earth
was a globe. What's more, science historian
John Heilbron documented in his book, "The
Sun in the Church," that the church actually
supported astronomers by letting them use
cathedrals as solar observatories.
The Bible itself makes some intriguing references
to the earth's shape. The most prominent is
in Isaiah 40 where is describes God sitting
enthroned above the circle of the earth. The
Hebrew word here is חוּג (khûg), which
denotes sphereity or roundness. To find out
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