Flat Earth Deception Part 2
About this episode
The episode discusses the cultural myth surrounding the flat earth and the misconceptions about Christopher Columbus's contributions to the understanding of the earth's shape.
First, here’s a little backstory: All of us here, and most of those viewing this podcast, will have grown up with a cultural myth about the flat earth that goes something like this: “Until the time of Christopher Columbus five cen- turies ago, nearly everyone thought the earth was flat. [And] supposedly, with our sophistication and intelligence today, we know better than the ignorant people of the past.” (Faulkner) I know this is what my parents believed, because I recall them teaching me something similar when I asked about a famous painting which showed a tall sailing ship falling off the edge of an enor- mous waterfall. This myth was largely born out of, or at least greatly exaggerated by, the American author Wash- ington Irving (Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle), in his five-volume series titled, “The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus” published in 1828. Unfortunately, there’s a lot more mythology about Columbus we were taught in school that isn’t true. But the main point for our discussion is that Columbus was not the progenitor of the spherical earth. The truth is that scientists had demonstrated the sphericity of the earth for at least 2,000 years prior to…
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