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From: karl@haddock.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.flame
Subject: Re: The flat earth
Message-ID: <1906@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 13:00:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  8 13:00:36 1987
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In article <4084@bellcore.bellcore.com> vonn@wind.UUCP (Vonn Marsch) writes:
>Remember, when Columbus thought the earth was round THEY THOUGHT HE WAS
>CRAZY. I bet you'de flame him as well.

I don't know if they thought he was crazy, but they certainly thought he was
wrong.  Which he was.

Not because he believed the earth was round; that was already common knowledge
among educated people.  But his "small-earth-large-india" theory was very
wrong, and he probably would have died at sea if he hadn't had the dumb luck
to stumble onto an unexpected continent.